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Ludwig Tieck and Friedrich von Raumer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2021

Edwin H. Zeydel*
Affiliation:
University of Cincinnati

Extract

Few German men of letters living in the first half of the nineteenth century had more friends than Ludwig Tieck, but of these none was more closely associated with him over a long period of years than Friedrich von Raumer, who was by adoption one of the distinguished Prussians of his day. Raumer was born at Wörlitz, Anhalt, in 1781; he studied law and political science at Halle and Gottingen and then entered the Prussian service as Referendar, Assessor and Rat, successively. In 1809 he became Regierunisrat in Potsdam and in the following year was transferred to the office of Chancellor Hardenberg. In 1811 he was appointed professor of history at Breslau, a post which he held until 1819, when he became professor of political science at Berlin. While a delegate to the German Parliament of 1848, he was sent to Paris as German minister, and on his return to Berlin, he became a member of the First Chamber there. In 1853 he was retired as professor but continued to deliver lectures until shortly before his death in 1873. He is regarded as a pioneer in German historiography, and as one of the leading German historians before Ranke. His two principal works are Geschichte der Hohenslaufen und ihrer Zeit in six volumes (1823-1825) and Geschichte Europas seit dem Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts in eight volumes (1832-1850), both splendid examples of the Romantic attitude toward history. Interest in literature is revealed in his fourvolume Bandbuch tur Geschichte der Literatur (1864-1866), as well as in several No veil en.

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Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , September 1928 , pp. 863 - 893
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1928

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References

page 864 note 1 I. Teil, Leipzig, 1855, pp. 368-369. For the assistance which Raumer gave Köpke b writing his biography, cf. ibid., I, xx.

page 864 note 2 Ibid,II. Teil p. 65.

page 864 note 3 Op.cit., I, 21.

page 864 note 4 Published in Lebemerinnerungen und Bricfueckscl mm Friedrick ton Raumer, 2. Teil, Leipzig, 1861, p. 107.

page 865 note 5 Literariscker NackUa ton Friedrick ton Raumer, I, Berlin, 1869, p. vi.

page 865 note 6 Beilage, April 11, 1915.

page 865 note 7 Germanic Review, II (1927), 12-15.

page 865 note 8 Lebenserinnerungen und Briefwecksel ton Friedrick ton Raumer, 1. Teil, Leipzig, 1861, pp. 279-280. This work will hereafter be referred to as LB.

page 868 note 9 Published in Literariscker Ntcklan, II(Berlin, 1869), 142-44. This work will hereafter be referred to as LN.

page 868 note 7 See Köpke, of. cit., II, 133. Cf. also the present writer's article, “Ludwig Tieck's Library,” Mod. L, Notes XLII (1927), 21-25.

page 873 note 8 Erinrtcrnnren an Friedrick ton Ücerkt und trim Lett, Ldpsig, 1884, p. 165 ff

page 881 note 12 Tieck reverts here to a Romantic thought of Friadrich Schlegel.

page 883 note 13 For this earliest period see also the present writer's article, “Die en ten Beziehungen Ludwig Tiecks zu den Brudem Schlegel” (J EG Ph., January, 1928)

page 884 note 14 Cf. Tleck's letter to Count Yoik-Wrtenburg of March 1, 1853 (pub. ky L. H. Fischer, A us Berlins VertangenkeU, Berlin, 1891, p. 177), wherein Tieck confesses he was astonished at Fried rich's 'incomprehensible progress in superstition.“ Cf. also s letter to TOD Brinkmsn of November 17, 1835 (Eufioriem, Ergh. 13, p. 61 ff.).

page 885 note 15 Cf. also WUhelm's letter to Tieck of March 30, 1828 (Holtei, op. cit., III. 296).

page 887 note 16 SeeHoltei, I, 371.

page 888 note 17 AUS Berlin, Ver,antenkeii (Berlin, 1891), pp. 108-9.

page 889 note 18 Tieck-Stndien, Wilmersdorl-Berlin, 1903.

page 891 note 19 The reference is to Philipp Buttmsnn (1764-1829), a classical philologist, whose tombstone, by Friedrich Tieck, is in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery, Berlin.

page 892 note 20 Christian Friedrich Tieck (1776-1851), the younger brother of Ludwig, was a prominent scu'ptor and adherent of Rauch't school.

page 892 note 21 There U a note in the left margin in Raumer. hand: NB.

page 892 note 22 This probably refers to one of Philipp Buttmann's sons.