 Fechner was, in the truest sense of the word, “ein Leipziger”. Though he spent his childhood in Großsärchen and Dresden, he lived almost his entire life in Leipzig, from 1817 to 1887. He travelled outside it only for vacations, and only once for a short sojourn, a three month stay in Paris in 1827. Leipzig was not intellectually restricting, however, since, in the first half of the nineteenth century, it was in many respects the cultural center of Germany. It was famous for its musical life, for its book trade, and for its literary salons. It was called “the Paris of Germany”. Fechner enjoyed this cultural life and was fully integrated into it.