The ''Athenaeum'' was a literary magazine established in 1798 by August Wilhelm and

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (after 1814: von) Schlegel ( ; ; 10 March 1772 – 12 January 1829) was a German literary critic, philosopher, and Indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of Jena Roma ...

. It is considered to be the founding publication of

German Romanticism German Romanticism () was the dominant intellectual movement of German-speaking countries in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, influencing philosophy, aesthetics, literature, and criticism. Compared to English Romanticism, the German vari ...

. Only three volumes were published, in 1798, 1799, and 1800.

Contributors

August Wilhelm Schlegel August Wilhelm von Schlegel (Schlegel until 1812; ; ; 8 September 176712 May 1845) was a German Indologist, poet, translator and critic. With his brother Friedrich Schlegel, he was a leading influence within Jena Romanticism. His translations o ...

Dorothea von Schlegel Dorothea Friederike von Schlegel (; 24 October 1764 – 3 August 1839) was a German novelist and translator. Life She was born as Brendel Mendelssohn in 1764 in Berlin,In older literature and on her gravestone one finds the date 1763, but this ...

* Karoline Schelling (then Schlegel) *

Novalis Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis (; ), was a German nobility, German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and Mysticism, mystic. He is regarded as an inf ...

August Ferdinand Bernhardi August Ferdinand Bernhardi (24 June 1769 in Berlin – 1 June 1820 in Berlin) was a German linguistics, linguist and writer. After studying philosophy in Halle an der Saale, in 1791 Bernhardi became a teacher at the Friedrichwerderschen Gymn ...

* Gustav Adolf Bergenroth * Sophie Bernhardi *

Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher Friedrich may refer to: Names *Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich'' *Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich'' Other *Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' ...

August Ludwig Hülsen August Ludwig Hülsen (3 March 1765 – 24 September 1809), also known by the pseudonym Hegekern, was a German philosopher, writer and pedagogue of early German Romanticism. His thought played a role in the development of German idealism. Life H ...

* Carl Gustaf von Brinkman

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

1798

Volume 1 (1): ''Notice'' (Friedrich and August Schlegel), ''Languages: A Dialogue on Klopstock's Grammatical Dialogues'' (August Schlegel), ''Grains of Pollen'' (Novalis), ''Elegies translated from the Greek'' (Friedrich and August Schlegel), ''Contributions to the Most Recent Criticism of Literature'' (A.W. Schlegel) Volume 1 (2): ''Fragments'', ''On Goethe's Meister Wilhelm'' (Friedrich Schlegel)

1799

Volume 2 (1): ''On Philosophy. To Dorothea'' (Friedrich Schlegel), ''The Paintings. A Dialogue'' (A.W. Schlegel with Caroline Schlegel), On the Natural Equality of Man (A.L. Hülsen) Volume 2 (2): ''The Art of the Greeks. To Goethe. An Elegy'' (A. W. Schlegel), ''On Drawings Based on Poems, and on the Silhouettes of John Flaxmann'' (A. W. Schlegel), ''The Eleventh Song of "Orlando Furioso"'' (A.W. Schlegel), ''Postscript of the Translator to Ludwig Tieck'' (A.W. Schlegel), ''Notes'' (A. W. Schlegel), ''Discourses on Religion'' (Friedrich Schlegel, review), ''Anthropology by Emmanuel Kant'' (F.D.E. Schleiermacher, review), Notes (K.G. Brinckmann), ''The Literary Indicator of the Empire, or Archives of the Epoch and its Taste'' (August Schlegel)

1800

Volume 3 (1): ''To Heliodora'' (Friedrich Schlegel), ''Ideas'' (Friedrich Schlegel), ''Considerations of Nature during a Voyage in Sweden'' (A.L. Hulsen), ''Dialogue on Poetry'' I (Friedrich Schlegel), ''The Last Writings Published by Garve'' (F.D.E. Schleiermacher, review), (various reviews by August Schlegel), ''List of Reviews Published by A. W. Schlegel in the Universal Journal of Literature'' Volume 3 (2): ''To the Germans'' (Friedrich Schlegel), ''Dialogue on Poetry'' II (Friedrich Schlegel), ''Hymns to the Night'' (Novalis), ''Conception of Life'' (Sophie Bernhardi), ''Idylls translated from the Greek'' (August and Friedrich Schlegel), ''To Ludwig Tieck'' (August Schlegel, sonnet), ''Discourses on Religion --- The Soul of the World of Schelling'' (sonnets), ''The Athaneum --- Zebrino'' (Friedrich Schlegel, sonnet), ''The Moral Stories of Ramdohr'' (Dorothea Schlegel), (various reviews by August Schlegel, Schleiermacher, Bernhardi), ''On Incomprehensibility'' (Fridrich Schlegel)

References

External links

''Athenaeum'', 1798 (German language)

''Caroline Schlegel and her friends'', Chapter VII, By Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick, T. F. Unwin, 1889
* Lacoue-Labarthe, Philipe and

Jean-Luc Nancy Jean-Luc Nancy ( ; ; 26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was ''Le titre de la lettre'' (''The Title of the Letter'', 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Laca ...