Mémoire Historique sur la derniere année de la Vie de Frederic II, Roi de Prusse. Avec l'avant-propos de son histoire, écrite par lui-même. [bound with:] [HERTZBERG, Ewald Friedrich von.] Histoire de la Dissertation sur la Littérature allemande, publiée à Berlin en 1780.

[HERTZBERG, Ewald Friedrich Count von.]

Published by Neuchâtel, Imprimerie de la Société Typographique, 1787

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Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. 102, [2], 29; contemporary half calf over sprinkled boards, spine in compartments, ruled in gilt with gilt-lettered spine label; a fine copy. First edition of Hertzberg's apologetic memoir of the final years of Frederick the Great, together with a number of other pieces, such as Frederick's preface to his history, von Knebel's Ode to Frederick II, and the ongoing dispute between Frederick the Great and Hertzberg about the worth of the German language. Frederick had attacked the German language and its literature and maintained that German culture had been nipped in the bud by the Thirty Years War. As the result of a challenge Hertzberg, who defended the German language, proceded to demonstrate that Tacitus could be as well translated into German as French. This resulted in a lively exchange between Frederick and Hertzberg about the German language and the value of German literature. See Querard IV, 98-99.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mémoire Historique sur la derniere année de la Vie de Frederic II, Roi de Prusse. Avec l'avant-propos de son histoire, écrite par lui-même. [bound with:] [HERTZBERG, Ewald Friedrich von.] Histoire de la Dissertation sur la Littérature allemande, publiée à Berlin en 1780.
• Publisher: Neuchâtel, Imprimerie de la Société Typographique
• Publication Date: 1787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition