Author

Friedrich Schleiermacher(1768–1834)

Friedrich Schleiermacher is documented in Fuller’s journals (1836). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Journal December 1836, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Harvard College Library loan

1844 Jun 6·Schleiermachers Platoshelf 2530

Charged out of Gore Hall on the card of Richard Frederick Fuller, Margaret's brother and then a Harvard senior; women could not borrow in their own name. Household access, not proof of her reading — not counted toward engagements. The full ledger →

Engagement: Mentioned
Present in: Journals
Documented: 1836

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 →

In Fuller’s words

“He talked of Schleiermacher, Jacobi &c. Described Jacobi as Bohly does, as a fair but impassioned soul, & more remarkable for beauty of sentiment, than coherency of thought.”

Journal December 1836 · 1836

When Fuller engaged with Friedrich Schleiermacher

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

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.

Documentary evidence

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

1836—

Journal December 1836

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mentionedManuscript page

“He talked of Schleiermacher, Jacobi &c. Described Jacobi as Bohly does, as a fair but impassioned soul, & more remarkable for beauty of sentiment, than coherency of thought.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal December 1836." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 3.

Inferred Schleiermacher named explicitly; no specific work named. He is described in context of philosophical discussion between Fuller and Schleiermacher (sic — probably 'Schleiermacher' as the topic, discussed with Holmes). Author explicit; title inferred. Holmes discusses Schleiermacher alongside Jacobi in a philosophical conversation with Fuller.