Culture and Society in Classical Weimar 1775-1806

510 Pages·19.259 MB·English

by  W. H. Bruford

NUNC COCNOSCO EX PARTE
THOMAS J. BATA LI BRARY
TRENT UNIVERSITY

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CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN
CLASSICAL WEIMAR
Wie es die Welt jetit treibt, m.ufi man sich immer
undimmer darsagen undwiederholen : dafi es tiichtige
Menschen gegeben hat undgeben wird\ und solchen
mufi man ein schriftlich gutes Wort gonnen, aus-
sprechen und auf dem Papier hinterlassen. Das
ist die Gemeinschaft der Heiligen, pu der wir uns
bekennen.
GOETHE TO ZELTER, l8 JUNE I 8 3 I

I (a) VIEW OF WEIMAR FROM THE S O U T FI
In the foreground, centre, the house of Frau von Stein (from 1777), behind it the
Fiirstenhaus, where the Duke and Duchess lived until 1803, and to the right of
this the Ducal Library, surmounted by the surviving tower of the burnt-out
Wilhelmsburg.
’l'(i) 6 O’ETHELS GARTENHAUS IN THE WEIMAR PARK
The drawing shows the house and part of the Weimar Park in 1806, after the
improvements made by Goethe and the Duke from 1778 onwards.