 Schleiermacher applied his scrupulous hermeneutic method fruitfully to several areas of scholarship that centrally require interpretation. One example of this is the series of lectures on the life of Jesus that he delivered between 1819 and 1833. Another—for philosophers probably more significant—example is his work as a historiographer of philosophy. For further discussion, see the supplementary document  Schleiermacher and the Historiography of Philosophy.