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19th Century Works On Jean Paul

Richter's Sämtliche Werke (Complete Works) appeared in 1826-28 in 60 volumes, to which were added 5 volumes of Literarischer Nachlass (literary bequest) in 1836-38; a second edition was published in 1840-42 (33 volumes); a third in 1860-62 (24 volumes). The last complete edition is that edited by R. Gottschall (60 parts, 1879).

Editions of selected works appeared in 16 volumes (1865), in Kürschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur (edited by P. Nerrlich, 6 vols, pp. 388–487), &c. The chief collections of Richter's correspondence are:

  • Jean Pauls Briefe an F. H. Jacobi (1828)
  • Briefwechsel Jean Pauls mit seinem Freunde C. Otto (1829–33)
  • Briefwechsel zwischen H. Voss und Jean Paul (1833)
  • Briefe an eine Jugendfreundin (1858)
  • P. Nerrlich, Jean Pauls Briefwechsel mit seiner Frau und seinem Freunde Otto (1902).

See further:

  • The continuation of Richter's autobiography by C. Otto and E. Fürster (1826–33)
  • H. Dring, J. P. F. Richters Leben und Charakteristik (1830–32)
  • Richard Otto Spazier, JPF Richter: ein biographischer Commentar zu dessen Werken (5 vols, 1833)
  • E. Förster, Denkwürdigkeiten aus dem Leben von J. P. F. Richter (1863)
  • Paul Nerrlich, Jean Paul und seine Zeitgenossen (1876)
  • J. Firmery, Étude sur la vie et les œuvres de J. P. F. Richter (1886)
  • P. Nerrlich, Jean Paul, sein Leben und seine Werke (1889)
  • Ferdinand Josef Schneider, Jean Pauls Altersdichtung (1901); and Jean Pauls Jugend und erstes Auftreten in der Literatur (1906).
  • Thomas Carlyle's two essays on Richter.

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