Friedrich Hölderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
	Hölderlin by Franz Carl Hiemer, 1792
Born	Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin; 20 March 1770; Lauffen am Neckar, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire
Died	7 June 1843 (aged 73); Tübingen, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Confederation
Education	Tübinger Stift, University of Tübingen (1788–1793); University of Jena (1795)
Genre	Lyric poetry
Literary movement	Romanticism, German idealism
Notable works	Hyperion
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Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (UK: /ˈhɜːldərliːn/, US: /ˈhʌl-/; de; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet and philosopher. He has been called "the most German of Germans" and was an important person in German Romanticism.^[1] He was also an important thinker in the creation of German Idealism.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

References

↑ Warminski, Andrzej (1987). Readings in Interpretation: Hölderlin, Hegel, Heidegger. Theory and History of Literature. Vol. 26. U of Minnesota Press. p. 209.
↑ Beiser, Frederick C., ed. (1993). The Cambridge Companion to Hegel. Cambridge University Press. p. 419. ISBN 978-1-139-82495-8.
↑ "Because of his small philosophical output, it is important to indicate in what way Hölderlin's ideas have influenced his contemporaries and later thinkers. It was Hölderlin whose ideas showed Hegel that he could not continue to work on the applications of philosophy to politics without first addressing certain theoretical issues. In 1801, this led Hegel to move to Jena where he was to write the Phenomenology of Spirit.... Schelling's early work amounts to a development of Hölderlin's concept of Being in terms of a notion of a prior identity of thought and object in his Philosophy of Identity." Christian J. Onof, "Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin", Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Accessed 15 January 2011.
↑ "Hegel is completely dependent on Hölderlin—on his early efforts to grasp speculatively the course of human life and the unity of its conflicts, on the vividness with which Hölderlin's friends made his insight fully convincing, and also certainly on the integrity with which Hölderlin sought to use that insight to preserve his own inwardly torn life." Dieter Henrich, The Course of Remembrance and Other Essays on Hölderlin, Ed. Eckart Förster (Stanford: Stanford University, 1997) p. 139.
↑ "Indeed, the Pietistic Horizon extended for generations up to and including the time when Hegel, together with his friends Hölderlin and Schelling, spent quiet hours strolling along the banks of the Neckar receiving the theological education they would eventually challenge and transform through the grand tradition now known as German Idealism." Alan Olson, Hegel and the Spirit. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 39.

Other websites

Works by Friedrich Hölderlin at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Friedrich Hölderlin at Internet Archive
Works by Friedrich Hölderlin at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Hölderlin-Archiv
Hölderlin Gesellschaft (in German, links to English, French, Spanish, and Italian)
Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin – English translations
Poems by Friedrich Hölderlin – English translations
Selective list of Hölderlin's poems in German, with linked texts – contains most of his major finished poems up to 1804, but not complete
Friedrich Holderlin (1909). Gedichte (in German). Jena: Eugen Diederichs.
Friedrich Holderlin (1911). Hyperion (in German). Jena: Eugen Diederichs.
Friedrich Holderlin (1911). Empedokles (in German). Jena: Eugen Diederichs.
Friedrich Hölderlin, Homburger Folioheft. Diachrone Darstellung – Hölderlin's most important manuscript as online-edition, presented by Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart and A und A Kulturstiftung, Cologne (in German)

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[1] Warminski, Andrzej (1987). Readings in Interpretation: Hölderlin, Hegel, Heidegger. Theory and History of Literature. Vol. 26. U of Minnesota Press. p. 209.

[2] Beiser, Frederick C., ed. (1993). The Cambridge Companion to Hegel. Cambridge University Press. p. 419. ISBN 978-1-139-82495-8.

[3] "Because of his small philosophical output, it is important to indicate in what way Hölderlin's ideas have influenced his contemporaries and later thinkers. It was Hölderlin whose ideas showed Hegel that he could not continue to work on the applications of philosophy to politics without first addressing certain theoretical issues. In 1801, this led Hegel to move to Jena where he was to write the Phenomenology of Spirit.... Schelling's early work amounts to a development of Hölderlin's concept of Being in terms of a notion of a prior identity of thought and object in his Philosophy of Identity." Christian J. Onof, "Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin", Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Accessed 15 January 2011.

[4] "Hegel is completely dependent on Hölderlin—on his early efforts to grasp speculatively the course of human life and the unity of its conflicts, on the vividness with which Hölderlin's friends made his insight fully convincing, and also certainly on the integrity with which Hölderlin sought to use that insight to preserve his own inwardly torn life." Dieter Henrich, The Course of Remembrance and Other Essays on Hölderlin, Ed. Eckart Förster (Stanford: Stanford University, 1997) p. 139.

[5] "Indeed, the Pietistic Horizon extended for generations up to and including the time when Hegel, together with his friends Hölderlin and Schelling, spent quiet hours strolling along the banks of the Neckar receiving the theological education they would eventually challenge and transform through the grand tradition now known as German Idealism." Alan Olson, Hegel and the Spirit. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 39.

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