Hermann und Dorothea [Hermann and Dorothea] (German)

Hermann und Dorothea [Hermann and Dorothea] (German)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1850

HathiTrust

1850

1854-12-12: "Tuesday. Scherr. Spinoza. Dessoir walked with us in the Thiergarten and told us an amusing story about his early days. When he was a youth of sixteen or seventeen acting at Spandau, he walked to Berlin (about 9 miles) and back in the evening accompanied by a watchmaker named Naundorf, an enthusiast for the theatre. On their way Dessoir declaimed at the top ofhis voice and was encouraged by the applause of his companion to more and more exertion of lungs and limbs, so that people stared at them and followed them as if they thought them two madmen. This watchmaker was Louis XVII! Dined at the Hotel de l'Europe and read Iphigenia. Looked into the Xenien and amused ourselves with their pointlessness. Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G. read 2nd Part of Henry IV." Diary 1854-1861 38
1854-12-[14]: "Thursday. Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenm and Leader and finished Iphigenia. In the evening finished Hermann and Dorothea. Read Henry IV 2nd part. Still headachy." Diary 1854-1861 38
1880-11-24: "WEDNESDAY 24. Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea." Diary 1880 213
1880-11-30: "Bailey's Hotel. Read "My faithful Johnny" in the Cornhill. Hermann and Dorothea and Comte." Diary 1880 214

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Hermann und Dorothea [Hermann and Dorothea] (German), George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57559

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