Author

Christian Gottlob Heyne

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

This author survives here only through the 1852 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled after her death by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

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Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Christian Gottlob Heyne’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
  • 1836LettersAttested

    “I have read, too, Heyne's letters twice, Sartor Resartus once, some of Goethe's late diaries, Coleridge's Literary Remains”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1836

    MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re93 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-03 l.6921-6923; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. CORRECTED 2026-10-03: author was misattributed to Heinrich Heine; the excerpt reads "Heyne's Letters," matching Christian Gottlob Heyne. Explicit 'I have read... Heyne's letters twice' (list sentence).

When Fuller engaged with Christian Gottlob Heyne

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
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This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

1836—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Mem-2-03 l.6921-6923
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“I have read, too, Heyne's Letters twice, Sartor Resartus once, some of Goethe's late diaries, Coleridge's Literary Remains”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Mem-2-03 l.7017-7019
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“I should like to begin the proposed series with a review of Heyne's Letters on German Literature”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.