Detours and Aberrations: Hagen’s Journey to Italy (1816–1817)

• Autores: Walter Kofler
• Localización: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur, ISSN 0044-2518, Vol. 152, Nº. 4, 2023, págs. 485-531
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The Germanist Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen and the historian Friedrich von Raumer undertook a fifteen-month study trip to Italy in 1816/17. More remarkable than their long stay there are the events on the outward and return journey: encounters with Jean Paul, the ‘estrangement’ of manuscript leaves from St. Gallen library holdings (including cover-up attempts), and the freak weather in the legendary ‘Year Without a Summer’. It was on the basis of material collected in this way that Hagen published the first critical edition of the ‘Nibelungenlied’ in 1820.