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L.H. Nicolay (1737–1820) and his Contemporaries

Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, Gluck, Metastasio, Galiani, D’Escherny, Gessner, Bodmer, Lavater, Wieland, Frederick II, Falconet, W. Robertson, Paul I, Cagliostro, Gellert, Winckelmann, Poinsinet, Lloyd, Sanchez, Masson, and others

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    1. University of Waterloo, Canada

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Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay (1737-1820) is virtually unknown in our time. Yet at the close of the eighteenth century he enjoyed a considerable reputation as a German poet of the French neo-classical orientation. He was esteemed as tutor to the Russian Emperor Paul I, as Russian State Counciller, and as President of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences. Moreover he was a friend of the most prominent eighteenth century minds that left their imprints on modern thought. As such a man, Nicolay may be studied from several points of view, as a writer, as an educator and as an intellectual. My first preoccupation with Nicolay was of a literary natur- which resulted in a doctoral dissertation presented to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (1960), under the title "Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay (1737-1820) as an exponent of neo-classicism. " The existence of the Nicolay archives, now in the possession of the Countess von der Pahlen in Helsinki, was not known to me at the time. Having later gained access to the same, I discovered a vast amount of un pub­ lished documents and a treasury of correspondence with the leading intellectuals of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Much of this material was to be published in conjunction with the late Count N. von der Pahlen, who unexpectedly and unfortu­ nately died in 1963.

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction Nicolay, a Neglected Figure

      • Edmund Heier
      Pages 1-6

  3. Nicolay the Man and Writer

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Nicolay and Western Europe, 1737–1768

      • Edmund Heier
      Pages 9-29

    3. In The Service of the Russian State 1769–1803

      • Edmund Heier
      Pages 30-55

    4. Retirement, 1803–1820

      • Edmund Heier
      Pages 56-65

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 186-207
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  • University of Waterloo, Canada

    Edmund Heier

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  • Book Title: L.H. Nicolay (1737–1820) and his Contemporaries

  • Book Subtitle: Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, Gluck, Metastasio, Galiani, D’Escherny, Gessner, Bodmer, Lavater, Wieland, Frederick II, Falconet, W. Robertson, Paul I, Cagliostro, Gellert, Winckelmann, Poinsinet, Lloyd, Sanchez, Masson, and others

  • Authors: Edmund Heier

  • Series Title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3564-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1965

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-0185-8Published: 31 July 1965

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3566-8Published: 25 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-3564-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0066-6610

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0307

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 207

  • Topics: History, general, Modern Philosophy

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