Author

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling(1775–1854)

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling is documented in Fuller’s letters, published essays, and journals (1841–1845). 3 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement: ExcerptedAnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Essays · Journals
Documented: 1841–1845

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 →

When Fuller engaged with Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist2records

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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

Schelling in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1841—

Journal November 1841

p20–p27

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“The highest perfection of natural philosophy would consist in the perfect spiritualization of all the laws of nature into laws of the intuition and intellect...' [attributed:] Schelling translated by Coleridge.”

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

Inferred Fuller attributes two separate passages explicitly to 'Schelling translated by Coleridge' (pp. 20–21) and 'Schelling, Academisches Studium' (p. 27). The first passage ('highest perfection of natural philosophy...') most closely corresponds to Schelling's Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature (Ideen zu einer Philosophie der Natur, 1797/1803), which Coleridge translated passages from.

Fuller attributes two separate passages explicitly to 'Schelling translated by Coleridge' (pp. 20–21) and 'Schelling, Academisches Studium' (p. 27).

1842—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p103

read

“Did you receive Schelling's lecture?”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

1845—

Letters From a Landscape Painter.

“Letters From a Landscape Painter.”

mentioned

“If Professor Torrey has translated Schelling on the “Relation of the Arts of Design to Nature,” has he published the translation?”

Fuller, Margaret. "Letters From a Landscape Painter." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 January 1845. · 18 January 1845