Author

Johann Gottlieb Buhle(1763–1821)

Johann Gottlieb Buhle is documented in Fuller’s letters (1836). One work is named, all in Letter to James F. Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Harvard College Library loan

  • 1844 Feb 20·Buhle Geschichte der Philos.shelf 733

Charged out of Gore Hall on the card of Richard Frederick Fuller, Margaret's brother and then a Harvard senior; women could not borrow in their own name. Household access, not proof of her reading — not counted toward engagements. The full ledger →

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1836
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Johann Gottlieb Buhle’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

  • Dated
  • 1836Geschichte der PhilosophieAttested

    “Since I came home, I have been consulting Buhle's and Tennemann's histories of philosophy, and dipping into Brown, Stewart, and that class of books.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 14 February 1836]

    Explicit 'I have been consulting Buhle's... histories of philosophy.'

In Fuller’s words

“Since I came home, I have been consulting Buhle's and Tennemann's histories of philosophy, and dipping into Brown, Stewart, and that class of books.”
Geschichte der neuern Philosophie [History of Modern Philosophy] · Letter to James F. Clarke · 1836

When Fuller engaged with Johann Gottlieb Buhle

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Buhle in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1836—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p244
read
“Since I came home, I have been consulting Buhle's and Tennemann's histories of philosophy, and dipping into Brown, Stewart, and that class of books.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.