Author
Barthold Georg Niebuhr is documented in Fuller’s letters and reading notebooks (1836–1849). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Richard F. Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
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 Barthold Georg Niebuhr’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 am again reading Nieb[uh]r this winter and if I get time shall read [ ] also.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Rome, 7th Deer 1848; I am again reading Niebuhr this winter
"I am again reading Nieb[uh]r this winter" is an explicit present-tense reading statement.
“I study sometimes Niebuhr, and other books about Rome, but not to any great profit.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Rome, 5 February 1849
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re58 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-10.txt line 25575-25577; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. 'I study sometimes Niebuhr, and other books about Rome' is an explicit first-person statement of ongoing reading.
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Read Niebuhr's Rome / Gibbon's Miscellanies and autobiography, / Bacon's letters”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).
Inferred Title inferred as the History of Rome since that is Niebuhr's major work.
“I am again reading Nieb[uh]r this winter and if I get time shall read [ ] also.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Hudspeth identified him: 'Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776-1831), a German historian and statesman, had been Prussian ambassador to Rome from 1816 to 1823.
“I study sometimes Niebuhr, and other books about Rome, but not to any great profit.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller names Niebuhr in the context of studying Roman history while in Rome