Author

Johannes Ronge

Johannes Ronge is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845). One work is named, all in New Year’s Letter from the Catholic Priest, Ronge., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.

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In Fuller’s words

“To his disciples,” he says, “Christ bequeathed his spirit—the word which he had given in spirit and in truth;—his garment fell to the lot of the executioner.”
New Year’s Letter from the Catholic Priest, Ronge. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Johannes Ronge

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York2records
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.

Ronge in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

New Year’s Letter from the Catholic Priest, Ronge.

“New Year’s Letter from the Catholic Priest, Ronge.”
quoted · read3 selected passages
“A word to the Romanists of Germany, and to those only, on the New Year of 1845. You of the Romish hierarchy!”
“Some weeks ago was translated into many of our journals the noble protest of a Catholic priest, Johannes Ronge, against the gross action of his associates”
“To his disciples,” he says, “Christ bequeathed his spirit—the word which he had given in spirit and in truth;—his garment fell to the lot of the executioner.”

Fuller, Margaret. "New Year’s Letter from the Catholic Priest, Ronge." New-York Daily Tribune, 12 March 1845.