Eduard Dorsch and his Unpublished Poem on the Occasion of Humboldt\u27s 100th Birthday

In 1869, the German-American medical doctor and poet, Eduard Dorsch, wrote a poem read in Detroit on the occasion of Humboldt’s 100th birthday. This article publishes the poem for the first time and explores its context within the life and times of its author

Jurij Brězan: Die Leute von Salow. Roman

Leipzig: Gustav Kiepenheuer, 1997. 219 p

A Short Letter by Humboldt to Jefferson

At the tail end of his monumental trip of exploration and scientific discovery through Latin America from 1799 to 1804, the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt visited President Thomas Jefferson in Washington. United by their common interests in the Enlightenment, they began a correspondence that endured until 1825. This contribution discusses a letter of 1811 by Humboldt to the former president, hitherto unpublished in English. Aside from closing a gap in their correspondence, the letter, although short, offers an illuminating insight into Humboldt’s personal, political, and scientific networks, which included such figures as Abbé José Correia da Serra and Joel Barlow, who were involved in his simple request for tobacco and seeds

Addendum: a second Poem by Eduard Dorsch on the occasion of Humboldt\u27s 100th birthday

In a previously published article in HIN under the title of “Eduard Dorsch and his unpublished poem on the occasion of Humboldt\u27s 100th birthday,” I elaborated on Dorsch\u27s poem that was read in Detroit in front of a German-American audience on Sept. 14, 1869, a day widely celebrated in the US in honor of Humboldt. Although it was not surprising that Dorsch wrote the occasional poem in the first place given his affinities with Humboldt\u27s world of thought, a discovery of a second occasional poem upon further research in Dorsch\u27s voluminous papers was indeed unexpected, in this case read on the same date in Monroe, Michigan. Although there are a number of similarities between the Detroit and Monroe versions, there are enough differences that warrant this addendum to my original article

J.H. Reid: Writing Without Taboos. The New East German Literature

New York: Oswald Wolff Books/Berg, 1990. x + 258 p

The Germania Club of Chicago — A History and Some Curiosities

A concise history of the Germania Club of Chicago

Phillip McKnight: Understanding Christoph Hein

Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995. xvi + 199 p., $39.95

Heinz Ludwig Arnold and Frauke Meyer-Gosau, eds.: Literatur in der DDR. Rückblicke

München: text + kritik, 1991. 307 p