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Easter (search for this): chapter 4
paid by the government, and there are, besides, as many more men of science and letters, who live here for the purpose of lecturing and instruction; so that at least seventy or eighty different courses of lectures, all in the German language, are going on at the same time. Two courses of lectures, or two semestres, as they are called, are given by each professor, or lecturer, in each year, with a vacation of three weeks at the end of every semestre. One semestre begins a fortnight after Easter (in April), and ends a week before Michaelmas; the other begins a fortnight after Michaelmas, and ends a week before Easter. Everything is done by solitary study and private instruction (privatissime, as it is called), or else by public lectures. . . . . My first object, of course, will be German. This will be taught me by Prof. Benecke, the Professor of English Literature, who speaks English quite well. . . . . Besides him, however, I intend to procure some scholar who will come to my
Eichhorn (search for this): chapter 4
till the end of 1815. University life. his own studies. Bencke, Eichhorn, Blumenbach, Schultze, Michaelis, Kastner. Wolf. excursion to Ha connected with its University, such as Dissen, Benecke, Schultze, Eichhorn, and others, and especially two men of world-wide fame,—Gauss in m lectures profitably, and then I shall probably resort to those of Eichhorn on literary history, and to those of some other professors on Greeuction very pleasant and useful. At nine, every day, I go to Prof. Eichhorn's lectures on the first three Evangelists. Though I do not agr Everett and I commonly spend either at Blumenbach's, Heeren's, or Eichhorn's. To Elisha Ticknor, Esq., Boston. Gottingen, November 10, 1 intruding on his successor, and the hint is seldom unsuccessful. Eichhorn, who has a great deal of enthusiasm when he finds himself in the mconsiderable tirade like this, his Majesty returned to Cassel, and Eichhorn, in the next number of the University's Review,—which he conducts,
Elisha Ticknor (search for this): chapter 4
On arriving at Gottingen, which was to be Mr. Ticknor's home for twenty months, he felt like the al relations grew up between them, and when Mr. Ticknor took leave of the great naturalist, he felt meagre collections he had left at home. Mr. Ticknor once said to me that nothing more marked th life, or the measure of any human powers. Mr. Ticknor's enjoyment of the new and copious sources ns and their changes, all please alike. Mr. Ticknor always was an easy and ready writer, and ths more fortunate and greater rival. To Elisha Ticknor, Esq., Boston. Gottingen, November 5, 181menbach's, Heeren's, or Eichhorn's. To Elisha Ticknor, Esq., Boston. Gottingen, November 10, 18ous poems. He was but two years older than Mr. Ticknor, having been born in 1789. He died in 1817has not his reward for his sacrifices. To E. Ticknor. Gottingen, November 18, 1815. . . . . It me. Yours affectionately, Geo. T. To E. Ticknor. Gottingen, December 17, 1815. . . . . N[4 more...]
Abbe Taylor (search for this): chapter 4
cholar. He wrote Psyche, Cecilia, The Enchanted Rose, (which last has been translated into English,) and many miscellaneous poems. He was but two years older than Mr. Ticknor, having been born in 1789. He died in 1817. After his death, his works were collected and published by his friend Bouterweck, with a short sketch of his life. A new edition appeared in Leipsic in 1855, in four volumes, with a more full biography. An account of his life and works may be found in the third volume of Taylor's Historic Survey of German Poetry. is one of the private lecturers here, and is considered very skilful in teaching; how he is, comparatively with others here, I cannot tell from my own experience, but I know that he is such a scholar as we have no idea of in America. To be sure, he looks as if he had fasted six months on Greek prosody and the Pindaric metres, but I am by no means certain that he has not his reward for his sacrifices. To E. Ticknor. Gottingen, November 18, 1815. . .
Italian (search for this): chapter 4
pondence, filling forty or fifty large drawers; the handwriting of Luther, which was fine; that of Melancthon, which was execrable; a curious and exquisitely beautiful Ms. of the German translation of the book of Esther, made about a hundred years ago, on one roll of parchment; but, above all the rest, the entire collection of Leibnitz Mss on subjects of politics, mathematics, philosophy, history, divinity, and indeed nearly every branch of human knowledge, in Latin, Greek, English, French, Italian, and German, in prose and poetry, printed and unprinted. They made an enormous mass. . . . . Yet no man ever wrote with more care, no man ever blotted, and altered, and copied more than Leibnitz. There are instances in this collection in which he had written the same letter three times over, and finally amended it so much as to be obliged to give it to his secretary to make the last copy; and all this, too, on an occasion of little importance. Still he found time for everything, and was,
Dissen (search for this): chapter 4
d varied attainments, and an unrivalled teacher in the department of philology, but also a man of sound practical wisdom and tact in the conduct of life, and had, for many years before his death, been the leading spirit in the government and administration of the University. His high and wide reputation had brought to it a great number of pupils. At the time of Mr. Ticknor's residence in Gottingen, there were many distinguished teachers and scholars connected with its University, such as Dissen, Benecke, Schultze, Eichhorn, and others, and especially two men of world-wide fame,—Gauss in mathematics, and Blumenbach in natural history. The latter was attracting pupils from all over Europe, not merely by his immense and accurate knowledge, but by his peculiar felicity in communicating it. His learned and instructive lectures were brightened by a rich vein of native humor, which was always under the control of tact and good sense, and never degenerated into buffoonery. He retained t
Psyche (search for this): chapter 4
in versions, I undertook to render into it, with some misgivings. I had never done it, I had never spoken a word of Latin; but the moment I began, the difficulty vanished. I found that I could translate thus nearly as fast as into my mother tongue; in short, I found that I knew a great deal more Latin than I suspected, I shall hereafter use it upon all emergencies without hesitation. My instructor, Dr. Schultze, Schultze was a man of genius, and a poet as well as a scholar. He wrote Psyche, Cecilia, The Enchanted Rose, (which last has been translated into English,) and many miscellaneous poems. He was but two years older than Mr. Ticknor, having been born in 1789. He died in 1817. After his death, his works were collected and published by his friend Bouterweck, with a short sketch of his life. A new edition appeared in Leipsic in 1855, in four volumes, with a more full biography. An account of his life and works may be found in the third volume of Taylor's Historic Survey
Blumenbach (search for this): chapter 4
d of 1815. University life. his own studies. Bencke, Eichhorn, Blumenbach, Schultze, Michaelis, Kastner. Wolf. excursion to Hanover. O especially two men of world-wide fame,—Gauss in mathematics, and Blumenbach in natural history. The latter was attracting pupils from all oterested in natural history, Mr. Ticknor attended the lectures of Blumenbach, who seemed to have formed a strong attachment for his studious ae principality as this. I shall not soon forget the praise which Blumenbach gave him, that he is a minister who never made a promise which hepirit for the afternoon. At half past 1 I read the passages in Blumenbach's Manual which he will expound in his lecture, and at three go toance. Our Sunday evenings Everett and I commonly spend either at Blumenbach's, Heeren's, or Eichhorn's. To Elisha Ticknor, Esq., Boston. he Herr Balhorn; but one day, remembering my commission, asked Prof. Blumenbach if he knew such a person, Why, to be sure; he's here, he's her
Welcker (search for this): chapter 4
There was not even a good Gazetteer to help the traveller, for I think the first was Constable's, published at Edinburgh, a little later; and as for such works as Reichard's for Germany, and Mrs. Starke's for Italy,—which were the best to be had,—I found them of little value. . . . . I read what I could best find upon Italy, and took private lectures on the Modern Fine Arts, delivered in Italian by Professor Fiorello, author of the History of Painting; on the Ancient Fine Arts, by Professor Welcker, in German, afterwards the first archaeologist of his time; on Statistics, in French, by Professor Saalfeld, and in German, on the Spirit of the Times; of all of which I still have at least six volumes of notes, besides two miscellaneous volumes on Rome, and other separate cities and towns of Italy. . . . . But in Spain and Portugal I was reduced very low, travelling much on horseback, though with a postilion, who took a good deal of luggage; but I like to remember that even in those c
Napoleon Bonaparte (search for this): chapter 4
d by the French. Ever since then it has shared a better fate than the other literary establishments of the Continent. Bonaparte, indeed, once sent Denon, the Egyptian traveller, and another savant, to look among the treasures of its Library, but t. To E. T. Channing. Gottingen, December 9, 1815. . . . .Your apprehensions for the quiet of Gottingen, in case Bonaparte had succeeded, were very natural. Amidst all the fluctuations of empire, this little spot has stood as the centre of Gued to go on in its accustomed order. They did, indeed, discover a strong and honorable and even imprudent feeling, on Bonaparte's retreat from Moscow, and Jerome was for the moment very angry; but I think he would soon have forgotten his vengeance resolutely formed, and the whole cemented into a body by an institution which they called the League of Patriotism. Bonaparte's routed army crossed the Beresina, and the Prussians (students) disappeared; it entered the borders of Germany, and th
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