WorkFriedrich Schiller

Geschichte des Dreißigjährigen Kriegs [History of the Thirty Years' War]

Geschichte des Dreißigjährigen Kriegs [History of the Thirty Years' War] (1791) Inferred

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) · 1791-93

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Documented 1834–1835

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed2records

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections

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“Schiller rejoiced in the death of Gustavus Adolphus because he dreaded such a reaction.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Fuller mentions Schiller's view on Gustavus Adolphus; the context of Schiller's historical and dramatic treatment of Gustavus Adolphus appears in his History of the Thirty Years' War (1791) and is the background for Wallenstein. Fuller's notes compare characters ('Carlos', 'Max') from Wallenstein to the Gustavus Adolphus dramas she proposes — indicating she has read Schiller's dramatic and/or historical works.

Fuller attributes to Schiller a view about the death of Gustavus Adolphus and the danger of political reaction.

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Letter to James F. Clarke

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“[From Hudspeth footnote 1: 'Fuller responded to her reading of Jacques Pierre Brissot and Schiller by planning "two tragedies on the history of G[ustavus] A[dolphus]"']”

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

Inferred Based on Hudspeth, Fuller's Reading Journal from 1835 indicates she read Schiller alongside Brissot for her Gustavus Adolphus research. The most relevant works would be his Geschichte des Dreißigjährigen Krieges (1791–93), which covers the Thirty Years War including Gustavus Adolphus's campaigns, or the Wallenstein trilogy (1800).

Based on Hudspeth, Fuller's Reading Journal from 1835 indicates she read Schiller alongside Brissot for her Gustavus Adolphus research.

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“Reading Schiller's introduction to the Wars of the League, I have been led back to my old friend, the Duke of Sully, and his charming king.”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Margaret Fuller engaged with Friedrich Schiller's introductory essay to his History of the Thirty Years' War, a work she identifies as concerning the "Wars of the League." In this passage, the text prompts Fuller to recall her previous engagement with the Duke of Sully, suggesting a thematic connection or resonance between Schiller's historical account and her prior literary explorations.