Author

Karl Simrock(1802–1876)

Karl Simrock is documented in Fuller’s letters and manuscripts. 2 distinct works are named, most often in Notes on Rhine Ballads and Catlin, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Manuscripts

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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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Karl Simrock’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

Dated
1842Rheinsagen, aus dem Munde des Volks und deutscher DichterDemonstrated
“Fuller undoubtedly got the story from Karl Simrock, Rheinsagen... she reviewed the 1841 reissue... where she translated a portion of the ballad”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · she reviewed the 1841 reissue in her "Romaic and Rhine Ballads," Dial 3 (October 1842)
Engagement type Translated (Fuller's published ballad translation) automatically qualifies per rule.

In Fuller’s words

“The first is "Rheinsagen aus dem Munde des Volks und Deutscher Dichter," Traditions of the Rhine from the mouths of the people and the German poets (edited) by Dr Karl Simrock… Many of the ballads in this collection are modern arrangements of the antique music, many by Simrock himself, and he has a band of able coadjutors. The style of these ballads is generally vigorous and simple, and all the writers seem penetrated by the spirit of the scene.”

Rheinsagen, aus dem Munde des Volks und deutscher Dichter [Rhine Legends] · Notes on Rhine Ballads and Catlin

When Fuller engaged with Karl Simrock

No datable encounters with Simrock, Karl have been catalogued yet.

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Simrock in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

Undated

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

n.d.—

Letter to Unknown

p148

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“The angel was not weary of waiting for Gunhilde, till she had unravelled her mesh of thought, and seeds of mercy, of purification, were planted in the breast.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Fuller alludes to the Gunhilde legend—a nun seduced by her confessor who flees her convent, only to discover that an angel took her place during her absence—without naming her source.

Hudspeth traces it to Karl Simrock's Rheinsagen, which Fuller reviewed and translated from in her essay "Romaic and Rhine Ballads." Fuller applies the legend as a personal spiritual metaphor: "The angel was not weary of waiting for Gunhilde."

n.d.—

Notes on Rhine Ballads and Catlin

p1–p3

analyzed · read2 selected passagesManuscript page

“The first is "Rheinsagen aus dem Munde des Volks und Deutscher Dichter," Traditions of the Rhine from the mouths of the people and the German poets (edited) by Dr Karl Simrock… Many of the ballads in this collection are modern arrangements of the antique music, many by Simrock himself, and he has a band of able coadjutors.”

“At the end of the volume we find notices of the Nibelungen translated by him into Modern German.”

Inferred Fuller explicitly names 'the Nibelungen translated by him into Modern German' — this is Simrock's 1827 translation of the Nibelungenlied. Fuller notes at the end of Simrock's Rheinsagen volume, notices of 'the Nibelungen translated by him into Modern German' — this is Simrock's celebrated 1827 modern German translation of the Nibelungenlied.

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Rhine Ballads and Catlin." Houghton Library, Harvard University.