Author:Johann Gottfried von Herder

Johann Gottfried von Herder
(1744–1803)

Johann Gottfried von Herder

Works

• To Cyrus, the grandson of Astyages (1762)
• Essay on Being (1763–64)
• On Diligence in Several Learned Languages (1764)
• Treatise on the Ode (1764)
• How Philosophy can become more Universal and Useful for the Benefit of the People (1765)
• Fragments on Recent German Literature (1767–68)
• On Thomas Abbt's writings (1768)
• Critical Forests, or Reflections on the Science and Art of the Beautiful (1769-)
• Journal of my Voyage in the Year 1769 (first published 1846)
• Treatise on the Origin of Language (1772)
• Selection from correspondence on Ossian and the songs of ancient peoples (1773) See also: James Macpherson (1736–1796).
• Of German Character and Art (with Goethe, manifesto of the Sturm und Drang) (1773)
• This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humanity (1774)
• Oldest Document of the Human Race (1774–76)
• Essay on Ulrich von Hutten (1776)
• On the Resemblance of Medieval English and German Poetry (1777)
• Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion's Creative Dream (1778)
• On the Cognition and Sensation of the Human Soul (1778)
• On the Effect of Poetic Art on the Ethics of Peoples in Ancient and Modern Times (1778)
• Folk Songs (1778–79; second ed. of 1807 titled The Voices of Peoples in Songs)
  • "Song of the Unfaithful Maiden" translated by William John Thoms (1834) (transcription project)
  • "Lay of the Young Count" translated by William John Thoms (1834) (transcription project)
  • "Ulrich and Annie" translated by William John Thoms (1834) (transcription project)
  • "The Lord of Falkenstein" translated by William John Thoms (1834) (transcription project)
  • "A Peruvian Hymn to the Goddess of Rain" translated by John Oxenford (1853) (transcription project)
  • "Were I a Little Bird" translated by Margarete Münsterberg (1913)
• On the Influence of the Government on the Sciences and the Sciences on the Government (Dissertation on the Reciprocal Influence of Government and the Sciences) (1780)
• Letters Concerning the Study of Theology (1780–81)
• On the Influence of the Beautiful in the Higher Sciences (1781)
• On the Spirit of Hebrew Poetry. An Instruction for Lovers of the Same and the Oldest History of the Human Spirit (1782–83)
• God. Some Conversations (1787)
• Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Humanity (1784–91)
• Scattered Leaves (1785–97)
  • Volume 2 (1796) (commons category)
  • The Child of Care Once a Week (magazine) (1787) English 1862
• Letters for the Advancement of Humanity (1791-97 or 1793-97? (various drafts))
• Christian Writings (1794-8)
• Terpsichore (1795-6) (translations & commentary of the Latin poet, Jakob Balde)
• Persepolisian Letters (1798) (fragments on Persian architecture, history & religion)
• Luther’s Catechism, with a catechetical instruction for the use of schools (1798)
• Understanding and Experience. A Metacritique of the Critique of Pure Reason. Part I. (Part II, Reason and Language.) (1799)
• Calligone (1800)
• Adrastea: Events and Characters of the 18th century (6 vols.)
• The Cid (1805; a free translation of the Spanish epic El Cid)

Works about von Herder

• "Herder, Johann Gottfried von," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• “Herder, Johann Gottfried von”, in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York, 1920
• "Herder, Johann Gottfried von," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• A Sketch of Herder and his Times. by Henry Woodd Nevinson