Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkJohann Jahn

History of the Hebrew Commonwealth [Jahn's Biblische Archäologie]

Johann Jahn (1802–1886)

ReadMentioned

Documented 1834

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Confirmed reading

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

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  • 1834History of the Hebrew CommonwealthAttested

    “I have been reading Jahn's History of the Hebrew commonwealth together with the old Testament”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 26th Decr 1834

    Explicit 'I have been reading Jahn's History of the Hebrew commonwealth.'

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1834—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

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“I have been reading Jahn's History of the Hebrew commonwealth together with the old Testament”

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.