Ludwig Börne : a memorial

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Label

Ludwig Börne : a memorial

Title remainder

a memorial

Statement of responsibility

Heinrich Heine ; translated with commentary and an introduction by Jeffrey L. Sammons

Creator

• Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856
• Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856

Contributor

• Sammons, Jeffrey L

Author

• Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856
• Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856

Translator

• Sammons, Jeffrey L

Subject

• Börne, Ludwig, 1786-1837.
• Börne, Ludwig, 1786-1837
• Börne, Ludwig, 1786-1837

Language

• eng
• ger
• eng

Summary

In 1840, Heinrich Heine, the major German poet of Jewish origin of the age, published a book on Ludwig Börne, the major German political writer of Jewish origin of the period, who had died three years before. Regarded by Heine and others as his best-written book, it was also his most disastrously conceived. Intended to recover the high ground of revolutionary principle and philosophy against the attacks mounted on him by Börne and his supporters, the book was instead met by a storm of outrage from which it seemed Heine's reputation might never recover. In the course of time, the evaluation was reversed; Heine was increasingly celebrated as a true herald of revolution. His vocabulary of Hellenism and Nazarenism, employed for the first time in 'Börne', was transmitted into English usage by Matthew Arnold. But 'Börne' itself is Heine's only major work that has never been fully translated into English. The commentary to the edition clarifies the conflict between the two most prominent German-Jewish public intellectuals of their time, corrects the misapprehensions constantly in circulation about their relationship and the book, and reveals the many peculiarities of the text. Jeffrey L. Sammons is Leavenworth Professor of German Emeritus at Yale University and the author of four books on Heine

Member of

• Online access with EBA: Cambridge Books Online
• Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
• Ludwig Börne
• Online access with EBA: JSTOR

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Dewey number

838/.609

Index

index present

LC call number

PT2309.B6

LC item number

S3613 2006

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries