Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Adelbert von Chamisso(1781–1838)

Adelbert von Chamisso is documented in Fuller’s published essays and journals (1841–1846). One work is named, most often in Journal November 1841, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “translated”.

Engagement
TranslatedExcerptedQuotedReadMentioned
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Essays · Journals
Documented
1841–1846
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

“Ein Kölner Meister zu Ende des / XIV. Jahrhunderts (nach Ghiberti) by A. von Chamisso / Du hast, Ghiberti, scharf und streng und richtig / Beurteilt meine Kunst und mich gelobt, / Das Lob aus deinem Munde klang gewichtig... [full poem, pages 51–54]”
"Ein Kölner Meister zu Ende des XIV. Jahrhunderts (nach Ghiberti)" [A Cologne Master at the End of the 14th Century (after Ghiberti)], in Gedichte · Journal November 1841 · 1841

When Fuller engaged with Adelbert von Chamisso

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Chamisso in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1841—

Journal November 1841

p51–p54
excerpted · quoted · readSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)
“Ein Kölner Meister zu Ende des / XIV. Jahrhunderts (nach Ghiberti) by A.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal November 1841." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 5.

1846—

The Poor Man—An Ideal Sketch.

“The Poor Man—An Ideal Sketch.”
translated · read
“I found in a foreign periodical translated from Chamisso, and which forcibly recalled my own laundress as an equally admirable sample of the same class”

Fuller, Margaret. "The Poor Man—An Ideal Sketch." New-York Daily Tribune, 25 March 1846. · 25 March 1846