Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert. Vom dem Vengehen und Bestehen der Galtungen und Arten in der organischen Natur, printed in Munich by Anton Weber, 1830., 25x21cm, 20pp. Original wrappers. There are no copies of this publication located in WorldCat/OCLC.
- Provenance: Smithsonian Deposit (it looks like it was entered in 1865 or thereabouts according to the quite faded rubber stamp on the title page), and then on to the Library of Congress, with their rubber stamp on the back extra/outer wrappers. Noted as being purchased, I guess, from "Okens sale, 1853". Condition: the original wrappered pamphlet is bound in a newer plain manila wrappers which are very chipped, which by and large kept the original wrappers good and intact. The interior of the pamphlet has some dampstaining but is otherwise crisp. Good copy. $125
- I can't really tell what Herr von Schubert is getting to in this publication, though there is a lot here regarding the soul and the cosmos and a concept of nature that I do not understand.
Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert 1780-1860, "...was a German physician and naturalist...He gave renowned lectures on fringe science (animal magnetism, clairvoyance and dream), and in 1819 he occupied the chair in natural history in Erlangen where he studied botany, forestry, mineralogy and geognosy...Schubert aimed to create a religiously-grounded interpretation of the cosmos. Contemporaries that included Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jean Paul, Justinus Kerner and Heinrich von Kleist were favorable to his work. His masterpiece, Symbolism of Dreams (1814) was one of the most famous books of its time, exercising influence over E. T. A. Hoffmann, and later on, Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung. Schubert advocated an ecumenical "awakened Christianity" which found evidence for God both in Nature and in the human soul. Synthesising the Bible with the philosophy of Schelling, he was a major figure in the "later Enlightenment". In his History of the Soul (1830), Schubert again attempted to fuse the philosophy of Herder and Schelling with the Christian tradition.”--Wikipedia
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