Record Number: 26782

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'We are greatly pleased with your sketches of 'German character'; your Oken, your pert Surgeon, your Schelli[n]g &c must surely be pictures from the Life. Becker says Oken and Wilhelmi are true portraits, as I described them from your letter. Above all I am glad to find both that you admire Schelling and know that you do not understand him.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

19 Feb 1828

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Edinburgh

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Thomas Carlyle

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Dec 1795

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer / Academic

Religion:

Lapsed Calvinist

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

John A. Carlyle

Title:

Letter dated 6th Feb, Munich

Genre:

Ephemera

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Letter

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

26782

Source:

Print

Author:

Thomas Carlyle

Editor:

C R Sanders

Title:

The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle

Place of Publication:

Durham, North Carolina

Date of Publication:

1970

Vol:

4

Page:

333

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 4, p. 333, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=26782, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Taken from letter from TC to John A. Carlyle dated 7th March 1828, written at Edinburgh. Pages 332-339 in this edition. Date of reading experience is estimate based on the date of John A. Carlyle's letter (given in Editor's notes) and date of this letter. Editor's note states that 'In his letter from Munich of 6 Feb. Joh had referred to Karl Joseph Kleinschrod (1797-1866), a lawyer of Wurzburg and Munich; Lorenz Ochenfuss (1779-1851), called 'Oken', German naturalist and philosopher, who foreshadowed theories of the cellular structure of organisms and of the protoplasmic basis of life; and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854), German philosopher who accepted a professorship at Munich in 1827.