TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schwarz, Ingo
T1  - “Ein beschränkter Verstandesmensch ohne Einbildungskraft”
BT  - Anmerkungen zu Friedrich Schillers Urteil über Alexander von Humboldt
JF  - HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies
N2  - In a letter dated August 6, 1797 to his friend Christian Gottfried Körner, Friedrich Schiller characterized Alexander von Humboldt as a person of limited imagination, who, in spite of his numerous activities, would never be able to achieve greatness in his scientific pursuits. Yet, only in 1849 did Humboldt learn of Schiller’s opinion from the published correspondence between Schiller and Körner. Nonetheless, Humboldt declared that this basically unjust characterization of himself by Schiller would never prevent him from admiring the great German playwright and poet; moreover, Humboldt looked for comfort in a similarly harsh opinion of Johann Gottfried Herder also expressed by Schiller. In the end, Humboldt could barely conceal his feelings of disappointment regarding Schiller’s opinion, especially because Humboldt had considered Schiller to be his friend.
KW  - 1797
KW  - 1849
KW  - Christian Gottfried Körner
KW  - Friedrich Schiller
KW  - Johann Gottfried Herder
Y1  - 2003
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34937
SN  - 2568-3543
SN  - 1617-5239
VL  - IV
IS  - 6
SP  - 35
EP  - 40
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -