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Martin Bucer Briefwechsel/Correspondance: Band X (Juli 1533 – Dezember 1533)

By: Berndt Hamm,Reinhold Friedrich,Wolfgang Simon

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Martin Bucer Briefwechsel/Correspondance: Band X (Juli 1533 – Dezember 1533)

By: Berndt Hamm,Reinhold Friedrich,Wolfgang Simon

Anders als im Briefwechsel des ersten Halbjahres 1533 begegnen nun internationale Perspektiven: Der Konzilsinitiative Karls V. begegnet Bucer wegen der vom Papst gestellten Vorbedingungen skeptisch. Er verfasst aber eine Fürbereytung zum Concilio, die zusammen mit Desiderius Erasmus’ entsprechenden Schriften den Weg zur Einheit weisen soll. Im Blick auf die Schweiz hat Bucers Reise (April bis Mai 1533) die Beziehungen gefestigt, und die Korrespondenz aus den besuchten Orten wächst an. Auch an den Ereignissen im Reich nimmt Bucer regen Anteil: Sein Interesse gilt der Lage Konstanz’ im Zinsstreit mit dem Bischof. Ulm sucht einen Nachfolger fur den verstorbenen Prediger Konrad Sam; Bucer diskutiert mit Ambrosius Blarer mögliche Kandidaten und gibt Ratschläge zum Eherecht. Aus Münster erreicht Bucer die Bitte um eine Stellungnahme zu Bernhard Rothmanns Aktivitäten, aus Nürnberg die Klage Andreas Osianders über seine Ortskollegen. Dass der Esslinger Predigerstreit mit der Entlassung von Martin Fuchs eskalierte, bedrückt Bucer sehr. Die Berufung Gervasius Schulers nach Memmingen freut Bucer, ebenso die Beruhigung der Lage in Kempten nach der Entlassung der lutherischen Prediger. Zu Augsburg intensiviert sich der Kontakt, vor allem zu Gereon Sailer. In Straßburg gelten Bucers Aktivitäten neben der Vorbereitung der Herbstsynode dem Bildungswesen. Seltene Einblicke gewahrt die Korrespondenz in Bucers Familienleben.

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9004309888

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9789004309883

The Complete Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Ten Volumes

Vol. 1

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The Complete Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Ten Volumes

Vol. 1

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

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3368942344

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9783368942342

The Autobiography of Goethe, Books I-XX

By: Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

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The Autobiography of Goethe, Books I-XX

By: Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

Reproduction of the original: The Autobiography of Goethe, Books I-XX by Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

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3752349174

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9783752349177

Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative cycles, Conversations of German Refugees and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, both written during a high point of his career, address various social issues and reveal his experimentation with narrative and perspective. A traditional cycle of novellas, Conversations of German Refugees deals with the impact and significance of the French Revolution and suggests Goethe's ideas on the social function of his art. Goethe's last novel, Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, is a sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and to Conversations of German Refugees and is considered to be his most remarkable novel in form.

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Princeton University Press

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0691043450

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9780691043456

Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life; The Autobiography

Volume 1 - in large print

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life; The Autobiography

Volume 1 - in large print

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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3387045190

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The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry From My Own Life

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty millions of reflective, serious and cultivated men, invites us to study him; and to determine for ourselves, whether and how far such influence has been salutary, such reputation merited. That this call will one day be answered, that Goethe will be seen and judged of in his real character among us, appears certain enough. His name, long familiar everywhere, has now awakened the attention of critics in all European countries to his works: he is studied wherever true study exists: eagerly studied even in France; nay, some considerable knowledge of his nature and spiritual importance seems already to prevail there. [Footnote: Witness Le Tasse, Drame par Duval, and the Criticisms on it. See also the Essays in the Globe, Nos. 55, 64 (1826).] For ourselves, meanwhile, in giving all due weight to so curious an exhibition of opinion, it is doubtless our part, at the same time, to beware that we do not give it too much. This universal sentiment of admiration is wonderful, is interesting enough; but it must not lead us astray. We English stand as yet without the sphere of it; neither will we plunge blindly in, but enter considerately, or, if we see good, keep aloof from it altogether. Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending by casual extrinsic splendour the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value. A man is in all cases simply the man, of the same intrinsic worth and weakness, whether his worth and weakness lie hidden in the depths of his own consciousness, or be betrumpeted and beshouted from end to end of the habitable globe. These are plain truths, which no one should lose sight of; though, whether in love or in anger, for praise or for condemnation, most of us are too apt to forget them. But least of all can it become the critic to 'follow a multitude to do evil' even when that evil is excess of admiration; on the contrary, it will behoove him to lift up his voice, how feeble soever, how unheeded soever, against the common delusion; from which, if he can save, or help to save any mortal, his endeavours will have been repaid. With these things in some measure before us, we must remind our readers of another influence at work in this affair, and one acting, as we think, in the contrary direction. That pitiful enough desire for 'originality' which lurks and acts in all minds, will rather, we imagine, lead the critic of Foreign Literature to adopt the negative than the affirmative with regard to Goethe. If a writer indeed feel that he is writing for England alone, invisibly and inaudibly to the rest of the Earth, the temptations may be pretty equally balanced; if he write for some small conclave, which he mistakenly thinks the representative of England, they may sway this way or that, as it chances. But writing in such isolated spirit is no longer possible.

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1465513973

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Book's by Wolfgang Gessner

Martin Bucer Briefwechsel/Correspondance: Band X (Juli 1533 – Dezember 1533)

Martin Bucer Briefwechsel/Correspondance: Band X (Juli 1533 – Dezember 1533)

The Complete Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Ten Volumes

The Complete Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Ten Volumes

The Autobiography of Goethe, Books I-XX

The Autobiography of Goethe, Books I-XX

Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants

Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants

Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life; The Autobiography

Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life; The Autobiography

The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry From My Own Life

The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry From My Own Life

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