WorkJohann Gottfried Eichhorn

Einleitung in das Alte Testament [Introduction to the Old Testament]

Einleitung in das Alte Testament [Introduction to the Old Testament] (Leipzig, 1780-83; 4th ed. 5 vols., 1820-24)

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752–1827) · Leipzig: Weidmann & Reich, 1780–83

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Documented 1834–1835

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  • 1835Einleitung in das Alte TestamentAttested

    “I have passed over that part of the first volume which discusses the state of the text, different manuscripts &c.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 1st Feby 1835

    Specific first-person account of her engagement with a particular volume of Eichhorn ('I have passed over that part...').

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed3records
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1834—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

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“Eichhorn I do not believe he has— I will send also the Tieck which I shall not use as I intended. I have your Uhland and three vols. of Richter which shall be faithfully returned”

Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 30 November 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 212–215. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

1834—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

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“What is your reason for sending me the 1st and 3d vols Eichorn instead of the 1st and 2d?”

Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 26 December 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 215–217. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

1835—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p222
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“You were quite right about Eichhorn— I have passed over that part of the first volume which discusses the state of the text, different manuscripts &c.”
“Soon I shall have finished these vols of Eichhorn and trouble you for more.”
“Will it be too much trouble to send the remainder of Eichhorn to my uncle Henry's?— My father would bring it me the latter part of next week.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

1835—

Notebook January 1835

pp. 2–63
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“Eichhorn's Introduction to the Old Testament. Extract / From the preface to the second edition.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook January 1835." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (86); Box 6.