Athenaeum (German magazine)


The Athenaeum was a literary magazine established in 1798 by August Wilhelm and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel. It is considered to be the founding publication of German Romanticism.

Contributors

, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Dorothea von Schlegel, Karoline Schelling, Novalis, August Ferdinand Bernhardi, Gustav Adolf Bergenroth, Sophie Bernhardi, Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, August Ludwig Hülsen, Carl Gustaf von Brinkman.

Contents

The following is a partial listing of articles in Athenaeum taken from Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy's The Literary Absolute.

1798

Volume 1 : Notice, Languages: A Dialogue on Klopstock's Grammatical Dialogues, Grains of Pollen, Elegies translated from the Greek, Contributions to the Most Recent Criticism of Literature
Volume 1 : Fragments, On Goethe's Meister Wilhelm

1799

Volume 2 : On Philosophy. To Dorothea, The Paintings. A Dialogue, On the Natural Equality of Man
Volume 2 : The Art of the Greeks. To Goethe. An Elegy, On Drawings Based on Poems, and on the Silhouettes of John Flaxmann, The Eleventh Song of "Orlando Furioso", Postscript of the Translator to Ludwig Tieck, Notes, Discourses on Religion, Anthropology by Emmanuel Kant, Notes, The Literary Indicator of the Empire, or Archives of the Epoch and its Taste

1800

Volume 3 : To Heliodora, Ideas, Considerations of Nature during a Voyage in Sweden, Dialogue on Poetry I, The Last Writings Published by Garve,, List of Reviews Published by A. W. Schlegel in the Universal Journal of Literature
Volume 3 : To the Germans, Dialogue on Poetry II, Hymns to the Night, Conception of Life, Idylls translated from the Greek, To Ludwig Tieck, Discourses on Religion --- The Soul of the World of Schelling, The Athaneum --- Zebrino, The Moral Stories of Ramdohr,, On Incomprehensibility