As a novelist, literary critic and journalist, Gustav Freytag (1816–1895) wielded considerable
influence in nineteenth-century Germany. As the editor of Germany's leading liberal journal …

N THE FINAL DECADES of the nineteenth century Freytag's Die Ahnen (The Ancestors,
1872–80) graced many a middle-class German “Geschenktisch” at confirmation and at …

As one of the most widely read German authors of the nineteenth century, Gustav Freytag
(1816-1895) continues to be associated with the middle class and the progress it enjoyed …

Nineteenth-century Germany witnessed many debates on the nature of the nation, both
before and after unification in 1871. Bourgeois authors engaged closely with questions of …

Zusammenfassung Die Entstehung und Rezeption von Gustav Freytags 1855 erschienenem
Roman Soll und Haben ist durch den intensiven Gedankenaustausch zwischen deutschen …

Heinrich Friedjung [1851, Roschtin (Cz. Roštín, Moravia)–1920, Vienna]: historian and
politician. Friedjung was the son of a Jewish tradesman. After studying history and German …

98 definition, should have been free of open controversy. Yet an intense, polarized and very
public debate was held in the early years of Nazi rule in Germany. It was a debate about …

By May 1848, the German fatherland was 'creaking and shaking', but it was unlikely to
disintegrate, wrote the liberal publicist and Kiel historian Johann Gustav Droysen in a …

Spanning the worlds of literature and the history profession, the Prussian novelist and
historian Gustav Freytag (1816-95) was influential in shaping opinion for his generation of …

In the wide-ranging introduction to his history of Germany in the nineteenth century, Heinrich
von Treitschke (1834-96) characterized the period 1555 to 1618 as the'ugliest years of …