Author

Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling(1740–1817)

Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling is documented in Fuller’s books (1843). One work is named, all in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Books
Documented
1843
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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 →

In Fuller’s words

“There is a family character about all the German ghosts. We find the same features in these stories as in those related by Jung Stilling and others.”
Theorie der Geister-Kunde [Theory of Pneumatology] · Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 · 1843

When Fuller engaged with Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
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.

Jung-Stilling in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

read
“There is a family character about all the German ghosts. We find the same features in these stories as in those related by Jung Stilling and others.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller mentions 'Jung Stilling' as an author of German ghost stories with a similar 'family character' to those of the Seherin.