Randfiguren? The methodological usefulness of marginal figures - Ernst Brandes’ and Franz Josias von Hendrich’s Assessments of the French Revolution as new perspectives on German conceptions of the Bürgertum
(2023)
Journal Article
Oergel, M. (in press). Randfiguren? The methodological usefulness of marginal figures - Ernst Brandes’ and Franz Josias von Hendrich’s Assessments of the French Revolution as new perspectives on German conceptions of the Bürgertum. Publications of the English Goethe Society,
This article discusses these two writers as examples of political and cultural commentators who were widely read and well respected in their lifetime but are now either forgotten (Hendrich) or a historical footnote (Brandes). The aim is to illustrate... Read More about Randfiguren? The methodological usefulness of marginal figures - Ernst Brandes’ and Franz Josias von Hendrich’s Assessments of the French Revolution as new perspectives on German conceptions of the Bürgertum.