Schelling’s role in the history of philosophy is often a subject of debate. He is an indisputably important figure in the historical development of the German Idealist movement. He took on a leading role in its inception in reaction to Kant and in German Romanticism around the time of the rise and fall of the French Revolution, lived through the heydays of the movement, and both saw and contributed to its undoing. Nevertheless, it is all too often the case, especially in the English-speaking world, that Schelling is portrayed as a marginal thinker in the history of philosophy. This chapter tracks how this view of Schelling is finally being corrected and provides a summary of the three main periods of his thought and its evolution.