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WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT (1767 - 1835)

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• Wilhelm von Humboldt Gesellschaft e.V.

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Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Essays on Language.  Ed. T. Harden and D. Farrelly.  Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1997.
  • Humanist Without Portfolio: an Anthology of the Writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt.  Trans. Marianne Gowan.  Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1963.
  • Gessamelte Schriften.  Ed. Albert Leitzmann, et al.  17 Vols.  Berlin: Behr, 1903-1936.
  • Gessammelte Werke.  Ed. Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Brandes.  Berlin: G. Reimer, 1841.
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Ideen zu einem Versuch die Gränzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates zu bestimmen.  1852.
    • The Limits of State Action.  Liberty Fund, 1993.
  • Ueber die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaus und seinen Einfluß auf die geistige Entwicklung des Menschengeschlechts.  First published as the introduction to his study of the Kawi language.  1836.
    • On Language: On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species.  Ed. Michael Losonsky.  Trans. Peter Heath.  Intro. Hans Aarsleff.  Cambridge: CUP, 1988.  Rpt. 1999 [without Aarsleff's Introduction].
      • "The Nature and Conformation of Language."  The Hermeneutics Reader.  Ed. Kurt Mueller-Vollmer.  New York: Continuum, 1988.  99-105.  [excerpt]
    • Linguistic Variability and Intellectual Development.  Trans. George C. Buck and Frithjof A. Raven.  Coral Gables, FL: U of Miami P, 1971.
    • "."  Humanist Without Portfolio: an Anthology of the Writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt.  Trans. Marianne Gowan.  Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1963. 
      • "On the Differences in Human Linguistic Structure."  Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  486-491.
  • “Ueber die Buchstabenschrift und ihren Zusammenhang mit dem Sprachbau.”  1824.
    • "On Alphabetic Script and its Relation to the Structure of Language."
  • 1824-1826.
    • "Basic Characteristics of Linguistic Types."  Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  486.
  • "Uber den Nationalcharakter der Sprachen."  1822.
    • "On the National Character of Languages."  Essays on Language.  Ed. T. Harden and D. Farrelly.  Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1997.  52-67.
    • "On the National Characteristics of Languages."  Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  485-486.
  • "Ueber das Entstehen der grammatischen Formen und ihren Einfluss auf die Ideeentwicklung."  1822.
    • "On the Origin of Grammatical Forms and their Influence on the Development of Ideas."  Essays on Language.  Ed. T. Harden and D. Farrelly.  Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1997.  23-51.
  • "Ueber die Aufgabe des Geschichtsschreibers."  Address, Berlin Academy of Sciences, 1821.
    • "On the Task of the Historian."  The Hermeneutics Reader.  Ed. Kurt Mueller-Vollmer.  New York: Continuum, 1988.  105-118. 
  • 1821.
    • Researches into the Early Inhabitants of Spain by the Help of the Basque language. 
  • "Ueber das vergleichende Sprachstudium in Beziehung auf die verschiedenen Epochen der Sprachentwicklung."  1820.
    • "On the Comparative Study of Language and its Relation to the Different Periods of Language Development."  Essays on Language.  Ed. T. Harden and D. Farrelly.  Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1997.  1-22.
    • "On Comparative Linguistics."  Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  484-485.
  • 1812.
    • "Announcement of an Essay on the Language and Nation of the Basques."  Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  484.
  • 1810-1811.
    • "Introduction to General Linguistics."  Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  484.
  • 1806.
    • "Catium and Hellas."  Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  483-484.
  • Aesthetische Versuche I. Ueber Goethes Herrman und Dorothea (Essays in Aesthetics I. On Goethe's Herrmann und Dorothea.  1799.
  • 1797-1798.
    • "Essay on Aesthetics."  Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  482-483.
  • 1796-1797.
    • "The Eighteenth Century."  Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  482.

On-Line:

• Archives:
  • Essays on the Greeks
• Selected Individual Works:
  • The Limits of State Action (1852):
    • The Sphere and Duties of Government (Liberty Fund Version)

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Aarsleff, Hans.  "Introduction."  On Language: On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental  Development of the Human Species.  Ed. Michael Losonsky.  Trans. Peter Heath.  Cambridge: CUP, 1988.  xvii-lxv.

  • Beiser, Frederick C.  "The Early Political theory of Wilhelm von Humboldt."  Enlightenment, Revolution and Romanticism: the Genesis of Modern Political Thought, 1790-1800.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1992.  111-137.

  • Brown, Roger.  Wilhelm von Humboldt's Conception of Linguistic Relativity.  Den Haag: Mouton, 1967.
  • Habermas, Jurgen.  "Hermeneutic and Analytic Philosophy: Two Complementary Versions of the Linguistic Turn?"  German Philosophy since Kant.  Ed. Anthony O'Hear.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.  413-441.
  • Harris, Roy, and Talbot J. Taylor.  "Humboldt on Linguistic and Mental Diversity."  Landmarks in Linguistic Thought I: the Western Tradition from Socrates to Saussure.  London: Routledge, 1989.    171-184.
  • Losonsky, Michael.  "Introduction."  On Language: On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental  Development of the Human Species.  Ed. Michael Losonsky.  Trans. Peter Heath.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.  vii-xxxiv.
  • Manchester, Martin L.  The Philosophical Foundations of Humboldt's Linguistic Doctrines.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1985.
  • Novak, Richey A.  Wilhelm von Humboldt as a Literary Critic.  1972.
  • Sweet, Paul.  Wilhelm von Humboldt: a Biography.  2 Vols.  Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1980.

On-Line:

• 1902 Encyclopedia: Wilhelm von Humboldt
• eNotes: Wilhelm von Humboldt
• Gans, Eric: Humboldt's Pre-Darwinian Structuralism
• Humboldt University: Biography
• Mueller-Vollmer, Kurt: Wilhelm von Humboldt (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Projekt Gutenberg-DE: Humboldt

• Schumann, Matt J.: Commentary on Humboldt's "On the Historian's Task"

• UNESCO: Wilhelm von Humboldt
• Wach, Joachim: Wilhelm von Humboldt
• Wilhelm Von Humboldt Edition Project: Bibliography
• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Wilhelm von Humboldt

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