Author: Heidi Thomann Tewarson

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780803294363

For a woman, Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771-1833) occupied a unique place in German intellectual history. Heidi Tewarson gives us a rich account of Varnhagen's intellectual community and her writings which led to her reputation as a leading intellectual of her era--a champion of literary figures and movements, of human rights, and of Enlightenment values. 17 illustrations.