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Bunsen

 

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Christian Charles Josias, Baron von Bunsen : 

'She [Florence Nightingale] never reads any books now. she has not time for it, to begin with; and secondly she says life is so vivid that books seem poor. The latter volumes of Bunsen are the only books that she even looked into here'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Nightingale      Print: Book

  

Christian Karl Josias Bunsen : Lyra Germanica

'you will receive a Lyra Germanica from me the day after you get this letter, - I always wanted you to have it, & wished for your appreciation of Kate Winkworth's translation when we were at Heidelberg'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

  

Bunsen : work on Bible

Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'I have great pleasure in sending some books which I hope you will accept, the best books in the world (except the Bible), Homer and Plato [...] I have added two or three other books which I thought you might like to see, the translation of the Vedas as a specimen of the oldest thing in the world, Hegel's Philosophy of History, whiich is just "the increasing purpose that through the ages runs" buried under a heap of categories. If you care to look at it will you turn to the pages I have marked at the beginning? It is a favourite book of mine [...] I also send you the latest and best work on Mythology, and Bunsen's new Bibelbuch, which, from the little I have read, seems to be an interesting and valuable introduction to Scripture.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Jowett      Print: Book

 

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