Author

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz(1646–1716)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is documented in Fuller’s published essays and journals (1845). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Journal 1833–1842, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Essays · Journals
Documented
1845
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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 was much talent in the family, even greatness in King Frederic and the Queen, the pupil of Leibnitz, but that very greatness how little beside that of Beethoven!”
The Beethoven Monument. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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.

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

The Beethoven Monument.

“The Beethoven Monument.”
mentioned
“There was much talent in the family, even greatness in King Frederic and the Queen, the pupil of Leibnitz, but that very greatness how little beside that of Beethoven!”

Fuller, Margaret. "The Beethoven Monument." New-York Daily Tribune, 3 September 1845. · 3 September 1845

Undated

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

n.d.—

Journal 1833–1842

p27
“philosophy was at least more practical than that of Leibnitz, and had a grander character.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1842." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (83); Box 5 (83).