Author

Johann Jahn(1802–1886)

Johann Jahn is documented in Fuller’s letters (1834). One work is named, all in Letter to Frederic H. Hedge, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1834
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 Jahn’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
  • 1834History of the Hebrew CommonwealthAttested

    “I have been reading Jahn's History of the Hebrew commonwealth together with the old Testament”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 26th Decr 1834

    Explicit 'I have been reading Jahn's History of the Hebrew commonwealth.'

When Fuller engaged with Johann Jahn

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
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.

Jahn in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1834—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p215
read
“I have been reading Jahn's History of the Hebrew commonwealth together with the old Testament”

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.