WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert [Winckelmann and His Century]

Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert [Winckelmann and His Century] (1805) Inferred

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) · 1805

InferredHer characterization of Winckelmann as 'a life of gratified impulses and untamed eagerness' and the address to 'G-' (Goethe) suggesting she has been reading Goethe's discussion of Winckelmann. The most likely work is Goethe's Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert (Tübingen, 1805), a biographical and cultural essay.

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Documented 1834

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections

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“Have finished Winkelman - Life of gratified impulses and untamed eagerness - too delightful - Why G- will you call him a pagan?”

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

Inferred Her characterization of Winckelmann as 'a life of gratified impulses and untamed eagerness' and the address to 'G-' (Goethe) suggesting she has been reading Goethe's discussion of Winckelmann. The most likely work is Goethe's Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert (Tübingen, 1805), a biographical and cultural essay.

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Notes toward The Life of Goethe

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“p59: 'Vol 37. Winckelman & Hackert. To be looked over”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes toward The Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Fuller refers to 'Winckelmann & Hackert' in vol. 37 of the Werke. Fuller names 'Winckelman & Hackert' in vol. 37 of the Werke. This refers to Goethe's essay collection Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert (1805) and his memoir of the landscape painter Philipp Hackert (Philipp Hackert, 1811), both published in vol. 37 of the Ausgabe letzter Hand.