Journal of My Travels in the Year 1769
work by Herder
Also known as: “Journal meiner Reise im Jahre 1769”
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discussed in biography
- In Johann Gottfried von Herder: Early life and travels
…Reise im Jahr 1769 (1769; “Journal of My Voyage in the Year 1769”), completed in Paris in December, bears witness to the change that it effected in him. Herder saw himself as a groundless being who had left the safe shore and was journeying into an unknown future. It became…
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German literature
- In German literature: Johann Gottfried von Herder
…Reise im Jahr 1769 (Journal of My Travels in the Year 1769) is a diary of his ocean journey from Riga to Nantes, France, and at the same time an allegory of a progress away from unthinking German provincialism to the kind of strongly individualistic rebellion that was to…
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Herder’s view of mythology
- In myth: Romantic
…Reise im Jahre 1769 (1769; Journal of My Travels in the Year 1769), a description of the experience, he wrote:
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