Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense.: From 1827 to 1858. With extracts from Varnhagen's diaries, and letters of Varnhagen and others to HumboldtHumboldt, Alexander von
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Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense.: From 1827 to 1858. With extracts from Varnhagen's diaries, and letters of Varnhagen and others to Humboldt
Humboldt, Alexander von
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 -- Correspondence
Thiele, 68, 107, 172.
Thiers, 48, 102, 115, 116, 211.
Thomas, 102, 115.
Tholuk, 65.
Tieck, 55.
Trubetzkoi, Princess, 73.
U.
Uhden, 158.
Uwaroff, 68.
V.
Varnhagen, Fr. A., 168.
Victoria, Queen, 124, 224.
Voigtlaender, 42.
W.
Wittgenstein, 5, 45, 88, 160.
Z.
Zeune, 16, 212.
Zinzendorf, Count, 6, 105.
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Footnote 1:
On the Principal Causes of the Variation of Temperature upon the
Earth.
Footnote 2:
With a copy of “Views of Nature,” new edition.
Footnote 3:
The memoranda were intended to be communicated to Professor Hegel, who
was told that Humboldt had indulged in attacks on Philosophy in his
lectures.
Footnote 4:
It was a book of Ranke (the Historian).
Footnote 5:
Biography of Count Zinzendorf by Varnhagen.—_Translator._
Footnote 6:
Humboldt wrote a very illegible hand, hence this
allusion.—_Translator._
Footnote 7:
Memoirs of John Benjamin Ehrhard, Philosopher and Physician. Edited by
Varnhagen von Ense. Stuttgart and Tubingen. Cotta. 1830.
Footnote 8:
Goethe.—_Translator._
Footnote 9:
Of Rahel’s death.
Footnote 10:
At that time editor of the Haude and Spenersche Zeitung in
Berlin.—_Tr._
Footnote 11:
Wilhelm von Humboldt died on the 8th of April, 1835, at Tegel, at 6
o’clock in the evening.
Footnote 12:
Bollmann, a German who resided a long time in the United States, and
who is known by his bold attempts to liberate Lafayette from the
prison of Olmutz.—_Translator._
Footnote 13:
Preface to Wilhelm von Humboldt’s work about the Kawi language.
Footnote 14:
Professor of History at Berlin.
Footnote 15:
Helene, Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, afterwards Duchess of
Orleans.
Footnote 16:
Tegel, Humboldt’s country-seat near Berlin.—_Tr._
Footnote 17:
Toeplitz, a Bohemian bathing-place.—_Tr._
Footnote 18:
Biography by Varnhagen.—_Tr._
Footnote 19:
Dorow’s Memoirs and Correspondence, 3d vol.
Footnote 20:
Sophia Wilhelmina, Princess of Baireuth.
Footnote 21:
Fr. Jaco’s Jubilee Oration for Kries, at Gotha.
Footnote 22:
At Göttingen.
Footnote 23:
Pilgrimage to Sesenheim. By August Ferdinand Nacke. Published by K. A.
Varnhagen von Ense. Berlin, 1840.
Footnote 24:
Sans Souci, the King’s residence near Potsdam.—_Translator._
Footnote 25:
Bettina von Arnim. Bopp’s critique is to me a source of great
pleasure.
Footnote 26:
Probably Seiffert, Humboldt’s servant.—_Tr._
Footnote 27:
The 5th of May was a day of penance.
Footnote 28:
A Prussian Field Marshal, killed at the battle of Prague, 1757.—_Tr._
Footnote 29:
Allusion to the battle of Mollwitz, 1741, which was won by Schwerin
alone, who, indignant at the blunders of the King, ordered him to ride
off, and assumed the command himself, which Frederick the Great never
forgave.—_Tr._
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