Author
Johann Gottfried Eichhorn is documented in Fuller’s letters and reading notebooks (1834–1835). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Frederic H. Hedge, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Johann Gottfried Eichhorn’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“I have passed over that part of the first volume which discusses the state of the text, different manuscripts &c.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 1st Feby 1835
Specific first-person account of her engagement with a particular volume of Eichhorn ('I have passed over that part...').
“Eichhorn's Introduction to the Old Testament. Extract From the preface to the second edition.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Groton. 1st. Jan y 1835.
Manuscript notebook copying an extract from Eichhorn's preface across many pages (2-67), consistent with substantial reading-notebook excerpting.
“Eichhorn's Introduction to the Old Testament. Extract / From the preface to the second edition. 'The merely theological use which has usually been made of the Old Testament has hindered, to a greater extent than may be imagined our duly appreciating its merit as a work of gray antiquity...' [plus extensive further quotations throughout the notebook]”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Eichhorn I do not believe he has— I will send also the Tieck which I shall not use as I intended. I have your Uhland and three vols. of Richter which shall be faithfully returned”
Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 30 November 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 212–215. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“What is your reason for sending me the 1st and 3d vols Eichorn instead of the 1st and 2d?”
Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 26 December 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 215–217. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“You were quite right about Eichhorn— I have passed over that part of the first volume which discusses the state of the text, different manuscripts &c.”
“Soon I shall have finished these vols of Eichhorn and trouble you for more.”
“Will it be too much trouble to send the remainder of Eichhorn to my uncle Henry's?— My father would bring it me the latter part of next week.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Eichhorn's Introduction to the Old Testament. Extract / From the preface to the second edition.”
“J.G. Eichhorn de Aegypti annis mirabili”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook January 1835." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (86); Box 6.