Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkJohann Ludwig Uhland

“Rechtfertigung [Justification]”

Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862)

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

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

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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excerpted · quoted · read
“lines which I translate from the German of Uhland. They are entitled 'Justification.”

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's engagement with Ludwig Uhland's "Rechtfertigung" (Justification) is evidenced in her translation of the poem, indicated by her April 1836 letter where she attributes the lines to Uhland and notes the title.