Varia: XXVI.5 (The Brown Notebook)
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Source: Nachlaß Herder XXVI.5 (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz)
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Braunes Studienbuch
(NL-Herder XXVI.5)
The so-called Braunes Studienbuch (Brown Notebook) is a quarto volume (17.5 x 20 cm), 70 sheets, with a brown cover. It is paginated (apparently by Herder) as I-IV (with I as the title-page) and then 1-137 (the inside back cover is p. 137). The text is all in ink (dark brown or black, on one page red), with pencilled markings by a later user. On the title-page (p. I): “Beiträge / fürs / Gedächtniß. / 1761. / 1762ff.”[1] Below which is a quote: “Der Weise / Der minder liest, als denkt, ˚.und minder schreibt, als liest. / ˚von Creuz.”[2] On p. II is a quote from Horace. This notebook is a collection of thoughts, notes on books read, sketches of letters, as well as a few lecture notes.
None of the six manuscript pages transcribed on this webpage are lecture notes; the material here is included as additional material to complement the notes, and is not included in the Name Index nor the Bibliography.
Previous transcriptions: None of the pages below were transcribed in Irmscher (1964) or the Academy edition.
Other transcribed text from this notebook can be found at MP (RP/NT 796) (notebook pages 32-33) and Varia (Mathematics) (notebook pages 9, 10, and 21).
Items included here:
[25] Herder’s daily schedule
[66-83] Alphabetical entries on persons and things: Basedow, Baumgarten, Hume
[123] “den 21. Aug. bei Kant das Collegium angefangen”
The notebook was begun while Herder was still in Mohrungen, apparently from what is now the back of the notebook, on p. 134, where we find three pages of calligraphic text (also on p. 129), and then was continued while at the university in Königsberg (1880, 1: 21-27). An early division in the notebook was in terms of disciplines: theological, philosophical, “something for practice,” historical, poetic, oratorical, geographical/physical, and “assorted matters from literature.”
Two entries are of particular interest:
(1) On p. 32: “bey Kant. 1sten mal. d. 21 Aug”[3] followed by two pages of notes from Kant’s metaphysics lectures concerning Baumgarten, §§796-808 (rational psychology and natural theology).
(2) On p. 123: “den 21. Aug. bei Kant das Collegium angefangen”[4].
The second entry of the August 21 class, at the top of p. 123, appears to be a brief recounting of that semester, also noting his matriculation date with the university, and then giving what could be a list of textbooks needed that semester (including prices in florins and groschens). There are also various light pencil markings that presumably stem from Bernhard Suphan (1845-1911), the editor of Herder’s Sämtliche Werke (1877-1913). For example, after a parenthetical note by Herder in dark brown ink – “(Er lebt; er herrscht)” – is the pencilled word ‘Pfingsthens’, next to Herder’s list of books and prices (in dark brown ink) is the pencilled word: ‘Studienmittel’, and next to the remark about attending Kant’s lecture is the pencilled note: ‘Zur Biog’.
[1] “Articles for memory. 1761. 1762ff.”
[2] “The Sage. Who reads less then thinks, and writes less than reads. / von Creuz.” Friedrich Karl Kasimir Freiherr von Creuz (1724-1770) was a German poet and civil servant who served out his brief life as a Hofrat (eventually Reichshofrat) in Hessen-Homburg. He was primarily an autodidact, with only a Gymnasium education for formal training. Herder quotes from his poetry in the "Poetisches Fach" portion of the notebook (pp. 66-83).
[3] “With Kant the 1st time, Aug 21”.
[4] “the 21st of Aug, begun the class with Kant”.
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[XXVI.5] ms 25
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[…] 7-8. Roußeau. 8-9. [b] praparat. im fr. ˚.und ode [c] 3-4. histor.ie 5-6. handlungssachen: – 6-7. spazziergehen: 7-8. Biblioth. 9-10 Theol.ogie 10-11 Roußeau […] |
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[XXVI.5] ms 67
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[Pp. 66-83 consist of alphabetically arranged entries, like a small lexikon. This is the page for 'B' with three entries (‘Batteux’ has been omitted).
Basedow:[1] als Dichter betrachtet schlecht; als Redner sehr mittelmäßig ˚.und oft langweilig, als Dogmatiker der Wissenschaften, unphilosophisch, verworren ˚.und selten neu, je mehr ers ˚.sein will. ˚.Sein Oratorie mag vielleicht ˚.sein mittelmässig bestes Werksege, nur wenn er sich in die Philos.ophie vertieft, so stolpert er; — ˚.sein Poetik ˚.hat wenig eigenes als ˚denn Begr.iffe ˚der Dichtkunst, ˚.und ˚wie verworren ist die! — Seine Philalethia mag im Philosophischen Theil viel güte Gedanken. ˚.und neue Ausschriften zeigen; ˚die aber nie entwickelt ˚.und erschaffen ˚sind; – ˚das Wort Philalethia;[2] ˚.und Anthropol.ogie ˚.und Theol.ogie gäbe ˚eine leitsachen zu weit reiche [a] einere ˚.und wenig @schlarichten@ Entwickelung.
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Baumgarten: unter ˚sein 3 Brüdern ˚das gröste genie, ˚und in ˚den @einen@ Zeiten wirklich ˚ein Aristotel. Waz dies gegen ˚.die Plat.onisten Leibniz ˚.und Wolf: Lürze, ˚.und @Blunine@, ˚die er selbst im sichtbar in ˚die ontologie als Rasen rwebt, Ordnung ˚.und ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ , Erfindung ˚.und Redlichk.eit erhaben ¿: ˚.Man horen ˚.aus ˚sein büchern ˚.ein System im ganz: ˚Seine Metaphys.ik E. ˚.die Wolfische g. höchsten Vernunftigk.eit gebracht: ˚und ˚.auf ihr kann ¿¿¿¿¿ ˚.eine Philosophischer Dichter ˚sich noch ˚einer so kleine Sache so ˚viel Philos.ophie gebracht: ˚.wie ˚wenn er ˚den rechten geseltsgkeit ......... in htte: ˚den er jizt in ˚.die Metaph.ysik verweist. ˚.Man siehe ˚.auf ˚.die Träumern s.ein Aisthetik ˚eine nur in s.ein [b] geschen ........ (Uber s.ein Geist) |
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[XXVI.5] ms 73
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[Pp. 66-83 consist of alphabetically arranged entries, like a small lexikon. This is the page for 'H' with four entries. ‘Haller’, ‘Hagedorn’, and ‘Home’ have no accompanying text. Haller
Hagedorn
Herbst. In den unbegrenzten Herbste erscheint die Güte in gelber fliessender Pragt: aus deinen Schoos der ˚sich über ˚die Natur verbreitet, fällt verschwenderisch ˚.ein Regen ˚.von bunten Früchten herunter, ˚.und ergießt ˚sich, gleich im leuchtenden Strome, in ˚die Vorrathskammer ˚.auch des unfruchtbaren Winters @Choch.@ Home
Hume, ˚der Pyrrho unsere Zeit, ˚.hat in s.einem Metaphys.ischen Versuch ˚den Hauptzweifel ˚.von unserer Schlußart a posteriori ˚.eingenommen ˚das s.ie ˚nicht a priori gewiß s.ein könnte: Um ihn zu wiederlegen wird ˚.man also ˚die subjektive Gewißheit bestimmen, ˚.und ˚die mögl.ichen Schlußarten in Absicht des R.aums, ˚der Zeit ˚und ˚der Kraft bevestigen müssen; als denn ˚.hat ˚.man ihn @ganz@ widerlegt, da alles übrige blos ˚eine Bekleiderung dieses Skelets ist. |
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[XXVI.5] ms 123
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d.en 10. [a] d.en 21. Aug.ust bei Kant[1] ˚das Coll.egium angefangen. Gravesand [b] Phil. Newton: Institut. 3 R. 15 gl.[2] Crus.ius Schriften 16 R. Wüstemann 2 R. Hume 4 Abhdl. 1 R. Vermischte Schr.iften 7 R. Hutches.on Leidenschaften 1 R. 15 gl. Schönh.eit Moral Baumg.arten Ästhetik 2 R. 15 Metaph.ysik 1 12.[c] Meiers Ausz.ug ˚aus ˚der Ästh:etik 15.
Moldenh.auer Antiquit.en
Reimarus nat. Rel 2 L. 15 gl. Heinecui Elementa stili 2 R. |
Explanatory Notes
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ms 67
[1] [Basedow] Johann Bernhard Basedow (1724-1790).
[2] [Philalethia] Basedow published his Philalethie in 1764.
ms 123
[1] [bei Kant] A similar entry is found on p. 32 of this notebook (see).
[2] [15 gl] This list of books appears to concern the following:
Willem 's Gravesande (1688-1742),
Isaac Newton (1642-1727),
Christian August Crusius (1715-1775),
Justin Elias Wüstemann, Einleitung in das philosophische Lehrgebäude des Herrn D. Crusius (Wittenberg: Samuel Gottfried Zimmermann, 1757), (xxx), 666 pp.
David Hume (1711-1776), 4 Abhandlungen
——, Vermischte Schriften, 4 vols, edited by Johann Georg Sulzer (1754, 1755, 1756, 1756). […]
Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), Abhandlung über die Natur und Beherrschung der Leidenschaften und Neigungen und über das moralische Gefühl insonderheit (Leipzig 1760), (xviii), 356 pp., translated from the English by Johann Gottfried Gellius. Includes a 2 pp. preface by the translator. Original title: Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions (1728). (The Gellius translation is also listed by Warda as belonging to Kant’s library.)
——, Schönheit
——, Moral
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Ästhetik
——, Metaphysica
Georg Friedrich Meier (1718-1777), Auszug aus den Anfansgründen aller schönen Künste und Wissenschaften (Halle: Carl Hermann Hemmerde, 1758), 176 pp.
Johann Heinrich Daniel Moldenhauer (1709-1790), Antiquariat
Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768), Abhandlungen von den vornehmsten Wahrheiten der natürlichen Religion (1755).
Johann Gottlieb Heineccius (1681-1741), Elementa stili
Textual Notes
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[Here is a mark-up key for the transcription.]
ms 25
[a] A '˚nicht ˚durch' is crossed out.
[b] A 'historie ˚.und' is crossed out.
[c] A '3-¿' is crossed out.
ms 67
[a] An '˚.und ˚.ein' is crossed out.
[b] An '˚.und in' is crossed out.
ms 123
[a] '1762.' is written after but above the '10.', in the same ink. Text that follows, written in a very open hand across the top of the page, has been scratched out: 'immatriculiertet und nach das Collegium gezogen'.
[b] A 'Princ.' is crossed out.
[c] On the next line, but crossed out: 'Logik 1'.