Index
Adam (Biblical) 27, 41, 188–189, 193–194, 230
Adelung, Johann Christoph 20–21, 79
Age of Discovery 3–4. See also Second Age of Discovery
Agrippa 25
Allingham, Margery 292
America. See New World
Americans, Native (Indians) 7–8, 38–54, 57, 61, 70, 73, 87, 102, 106, 113, 157–179, 187, 300. See also Traven, B.
devil worship practiced by 36–37, 42–45
theological status of 41–42, 45, 177
Anson, George 132
Arabic language 89
Arabs 113
Arnim, Achim von 102
Asia 22, 28–29, 95, 101, 106, 134
astronomy. See extraterrestrial worlds
Aufenanger, Jörg 150
Austin, Sarah 128
Australia 4, 97, 115, 131, 133
Bacon, Francis 25
Bancroft, George 119, 129, 144
barbarism 4, 6, 21, 78, 104, 147, 151
in Schiller’s Jungfrau von Orleans 242, 246–249, 251, 253–261
Bellerman, Ludwig 288
Benn, Gottfried 319
Benzoni, Girolamo 32, 34, 42–45, 49, 53
Berkeley, George 197
Bertuch, Friedrich 84, 107, 124
Bible 30, 40–41, 190, 206, 210, 305
Bielfeld, Jakob Friedrich von 207
Bildung. See global education; see humanistic education; see self-cultivation
Binswanger, Otto 327–329, 332–334
Black, Jeremy 119
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich 80–82, 84, 86, 92, 109, 147
Boisserée, Sulpiz 125
Böldicke, Joachim 191
Boston 58–59, 69–73, 75, 120, 128–129
Boswell, James 89
botanical gardens 79
Böttiger, Karl August 122, 136, 274
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de 87–88, 92, 96
Boyle, Robert 94
Bradley, James 230
Brazil 4, 30, 40, 131, 133, 149
Bristol, Frederick Augustus Hervey, Lord 127, 134, 151
Brockes, Barthold Hinrich 197, 229, 234
Browne, Thomas 210
Bruford, W. H. 105, 131, 144, 148
Bruno, Giordano 189, 196–197, 230
Büchergilde Gutenberg 153, 157, 163
Buffon, George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de 79, 88, 198
Burke, Edmund 3–4, 6, 9, 77–78, 104, 109, 112, 147–148, 151
Burroughs, William S. 293
Burton, Richard 4
Burton, Robert 189
Butler, George 120, 136, 144–145
Byron, George Gordon, Lord 123–124, 127–128, 137, 141, 145
Calcutta 90
California 86
Calles, Plutarco Elías 165, 173
Calvert, George 119, 127, 129, 142, 144
Cambridge 57–76, 120, 122, 205
Campe, Johann Heinrich 84, 116
cannibals, cannibalism 6, 19–22, 33, 35, 37–40, 42, 44, 52, 77, 87–88, 112, 114
Canning, George 134
Caribbean Islands 20, 30, 86–87
Carl August, Duke of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach 114, 120, 150
Carlyle, Thomas 121, 127–129, 142
Cassini, Jacques 212
Catholicism 42, 44, 46, 48, 175–176, 178
Chamisso, Adelbert von 107
Chandler, Raymond 295
Charles II, King of England 69, 315
Charles V, Emperor 39
Chatwin, Bruce 4
Chekhov, Anton 198
China 3, 10, 22, 36, 78, 81, 86, 89, 102, 104, 114, 147
Christie, Agatha 106, 292, 301–305, 311, 314
Clarke, Arthur C. 184
Clark, William 4
Claudel, Paul 230
Cogswell, Joseph 119, 128–130, 133, 145
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 11, 127
Columbus, Christopher 3, 8, 20–21, 31–32, 34, 36–37, 46, 50, 187, 221
conquistadors 54–55, 95, 106, 166, 246, 260
Constantinople 28–29, 115, 134
Cook, James 4–5, 8, 80, 87, 89, 91, 95–96, 101, 106–116
Cooper, James Fenimore 121
Cromwell, Henry 63
Cromwell, Oliver 63, 71–72, 75
Davy, Jane 127
Defoe, Daniel 7
Degérando, Joseph-Marie 89, 92, 97–99, 108
Des Voeux, Charles 128
Dichterfürst (Poet Prince) 124, 130–131, 138–146
as comic figure 131, 143, 146–147
Diderot, Denis 88, 207, 228, 234
Dirks, Nicholas 104
Donne, John 190
Dörffel, Georg Samuel 226
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 320
Doyle, Athur Conan 294, 309, 314
Drake, Francis 22
Dupin, Charles 127
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich 296
dying words. See last words
Ebeling, Christoph Daniel 82
Eckermann, Johann Peter 118, 120, 122, 134–136, 138–139, 149
Edelmann, Johann Christian 211, 228
Egede, Hans 87
Egypt 78, 80–81, 114, 131, 133, 149, 176
Ehrmann, Theophil 109
Eliot, T. S. 5
Emmanuel College 58
Englishmen as world travellers 8, 115, 117–126, 132, 134–135
Enlightenment 3, 5–7, 9, 78, 103, 110–112, 195–197, 205, 207, 217, 236, 337
Ersch, Johann Samuel 85
ethnological horizons, expansion of 9–10, 77–99, 147, 189. See also geographical horizons, expansion of
Eve (Biblical) 27, 188–189, 193
extraterrestrial worlds 10–11, 14, 183–203, 210, 222–224, 227, 230, 233–234
and the glory of God 199
Christian theology and 188, 193
Copernicanism and 10, 185–188, 201, 210
Lessing and 210, 222–224, 230, 236
migration of souls to 199, 223, 230–236, 236
nightmares 11, 185, 188, 196–197
utopias 11, 188, 192, 194, 197, 200–201
Federmann, Nicolaus 33, 38–40, 43, 45, 49–51
Ferguson, James 198
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe 147
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de 187, 196, 207, 234
Forster, Georg 4, 7–9, 80, 84–86, 90–92, 99, 101–104, 106–108, 110, 112, 132, 147
Forster, Johann Reinhold 80, 82, 85
Förster-Nietzsche, Elisabeth 12, 321–336
creation of the Nietzsche Myth 327–336
diagnosis of Nietzsche’s collapse 321–327, 329, 332
Franklin, Benjamin 211
Franklin, John 4
French Revolution 264–266, 268–269
Froriep, Ludwig Friedrich von 144
Fuller, Andrew 191
Galilei, Galileo 183, 186–187, 190
Geertz, Clifford 113
geographical horizons, expansion of 3, 5, 9–10, 21–23, 29, 32, 34, 37, 46–47, 50, 54, 77–99, 102–105, 147, 189. See also ethnological horizons
in Faustbuch 21, 23, 29, 34, 46–47, 50
through German conquistadors 37–40
Giesecke, Charles 121
Gillies, R. P. 121, 125, 127, 129, 142, 144–146
global education 9, 77–99, 102, 105–106, 110–116, 148
public intellectuals and 111–114
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (von) 5, 8–9, 11, 14, 19–21, 81, 84–85, 90–91, 114–115, 117–152, 183, 202, 205, 207, 222, 242–243, 257, 276, 315
Goethe, Ottilie 115, 120, 122–124, 134–135, 141
Golden Age 7
Gottsched, Johann Christoph 194, 207
Granville, August Bozzi 124, 133, 141, 143
‘Great Map of Mankind’ 3, 9, 77, 82, 104, 109, 147
Green, John 82
Gruber, Johann Gottfried 80, 82, 109
Guinea 22
Haller, Albrecht von 5, 10, 79, 82–85, 87, 92, 94, 111–112, 115, 197, 205, 207, 210, 220
Hamilton, William 132
Handke, Peter 296
Harvard College Library 115, 130, 133
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 11, 109
Heller, Erich 12
Helvétius, Claude-Adrien 6, 88
Herder, Johann Gottfried 5, 7, 78, 82, 84, 112–115, 140, 144, 199, 207, 234
Hermes, Karl Heinrich 78, 84, 116
Hill, David 211
Hill, Reginald 315
Hoffmann, E. T. A. 298
Holstein-Gottorp, Wilhelm August von 85
Hulsius, Levinus 31, 41, 49, 51
humanistic education 78, 99, 101–116, 135, 148–152
Humboldt, Alexander von 4, 92, 94, 110–111, 132
Humboldt, Wilhelm von 105, 108
Hutten, Philipp von 21, 33, 38–40, 45, 50
Hüttner, Johann Christian 114, 150
indios. See Traven, B.
Iffland, August Wilhelm 270–271, 275–276, 282
incommensurability of non-Europeans 5, 8
India 10, 22, 28–29, 38, 81, 86, 91, 101
Industrial Workers of the World 153
Irving, Washington 121
Irwin, Robert 103
Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich 150, 234, 236
Jahnn, Hans Henny 296
Jöcher, Christian Gottlieb 214, 221
journals, ethnological and geographical 84–85
Kaempfer, Engelbert 90
Kant, Immanuel 7, 10–11, 84, 86, 107, 112–113, 136, 199, 274, 332, 334
Kästner, Abraham Gotthelf 82, 213, 223
Kemble, John 143
Kies, Johann 214
Kiffhaber, Hans 49
Kindermann, Eberhard Christian 192–193
King’s College 58
Kinnaird, Douglas 125
Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb 193, 198–199
Klotz, Christian Adolf 214
Knebel, Carl Ludwig von 140
Könneker, Barbara 23–25, 34, 46
Kristeva, Julia 6
Lahontan, Louis-Armand de 7
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de 211, 217, 220, 228
Lange, Samuel Gotthold 208
languages, non-European 89, 96
study of 89
translations from 90
La Pérouse, Jean-François de 96–97, 147
last words 12, 117, 256, 260, 289–317
clues in detective fiction 293, 295–311, 317
parodies of 296–297, 310–311, 315–316
red herrings in detective fiction 294, 297, 302, 304, 306, 310–312
Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury 59, 64–67
Lawrence, James Henry 128, 133
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 196, 228
Leichardt, Friedrich Wilhelm 4
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 10, 14, 205–236
and extraterrestrial worlds 210, 215, 222–224, 227, 230–236
Lévy-Strauss, Claude 4
Lewis, Matthew G. 114, 128, 137
Lewis, Meriwether 4
libraries, travelogues held in 79, 81–82
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph 6, 8, 21, 78, 87, 105, 112
Linné, Carl von 79
literary life. See world literature
Livingstone, David 4
Locke, John 196
Lockman, John 86
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 121
Lupton, Harry 132
Luque, Francisco Herrera 21
Lutheranism 24–25, 27, 32, 36–37, 40, 43–44, 46, 48, 53, 87, 210, 228–229
MacDonald, Philip 305
Mann, Thomas 11, 116, 131, 141, 151, 155, 172, 198, 202, 223, 241, 320
Marlowe, Christopher 22
Marut, Ret. See Traven, B.
Massachusetts 62, 65–67, 69–72, 74–75
Mather, Cotton 72
Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis 212, 226
Mead, Richard 217
Meiners, Christoph 82, 86, 109, 147
Melanchthon, Philipp 189
Mellish, Joseph Charles 121, 128
Melos, Johann Gottfried 122, 137
Michaelis, Johann David 85, 89, 92, 94
Montaigne, Michel de 6, 21, 87
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat 86, 207
Moon 186, 190–191, 193, 196, 199, 201
Mounier, Jean-Joseph 122
Moyes, Patricia 297
Müller, Friedrich von 120, 124
Münchhausen, Gerlach Adolph von 81
Murray, Charles 124–125, 127–128
Muthu, Sankar 103
Mylius, Christlob 94, 208, 214–215, 222–224
Napoleon 80, 89, 103, 119, 176
native habitats, recreated 80
Naumann, Christian Nikolaus 213
Neuber, Wolfgang 48
Newton, Isaac 195–196, 208, 214, 222, 224, 226, 228–230, 290
New World 3–4, 7, 13, 15, 19–23, 29–55, 57–76, 94, 104, 106, 153–179, 187, 208, 214, 221, 265
knowledge of 20, 29–33, 35, 46, 49
New Zealand 3, 52, 77, 104, 147, 200
Nicolai, Christoph Friedrich 213
Nicolson, Marjorie 190
Nietzsche, Friedrich 12, 319–336
noble savage 6–7, 41, 168, 174
non-European continents 4, 7, 78–79, 82, 84, 86, 89–90, 99, 104, 110, 114, 147
and English travellers. See Englishmen as world travellers
assembling knowledge of 4, 79–84
diffusion of knowledge of 85–91, 104, 106, 110
languages of. See languages
populations of 7, 9, 13–14, 104, 106, 147
Nussbaum, Felicity A. 105
Nussbaum, Martha C. 15
Oporin, Joachim 228
Orton, Joe 297
Osterhammel, Jürgen 110
Paine, Thomas 189, 194, 198, 230
Park, Mungo 4
Parry, John H. 4, 104, 124, 147
Pascal, Blaise 190
Paul III, Pope 4, 21, 33, 41, 187
Pauw, Cornelius de 7
Pembroke College 58
Persia 3, 28–29, 78, 104, 114, 147, 149
Persian language 89
Phillips, Adam 6
‘philosophical traveller’ 4, 98, 103, 106
Pizarro, Francisco 34
Plath, Johann Heinrich 86
Plessner, Helmuth 115
Polo, Marco 3
Pratt, Mary Louise 110
Pronzini, Bill 308
Protestantism 35, 37, 39–51, 54. See also conquistadors
encouraging exploration 48–49, 51, 54
provinciality, German 130, 136
Puritans 58, 60–62, 64, 66, 69, 71–73, 75–76
Rauw, Johann 49
Reisende Deutsche, Der 12–13, 106
Reiske, Johann Jakob 89
Riemer, Friedrich Wilhelm 120
Ritter, Carl 108
Robertson, William 3–4, 9, 104, 147
Robinson, Henry Crabb 125, 127–129, 141–144, 149
Rohmer, Sax 300
Rosetta Stone 80
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 78, 102, 108, 207–208
Said, Edward 103
Sale, George 90
Sandberg, Richard 323–324, 327–328, 331, 335
‘savages’ 6–7, 33, 41–43, 45, 51, 77, 88, 98–99, 102–103, 133–134, 148, 168, 174. See also noble savage
Scherer, Wilhelm 207
Schiller, Friedrich 11–12, 119, 129, 202, 207, 220, 239–262, 263–288
Die Jungfrau von Orleans 12, 239–261. See also barbarism, in Schiller’s Jungfrau von Orleans
chauvinism in 246–248, 252, 259–260
ideological readings of 243–247
psychological reading of 248–261
Schlözer, August Ludwig 82, 86, 109
Schmeitzel, Martin 12
Schmeller, Johann Joseph 121
Schmidel, Ulrich 33, 39–41, 44–45, 49, 51
Schnitzler, Arthur 11
Schönemann, Friedrich 12
Schulz, Dutch 293
Schulz, Gerhard 150
Schütze, Jochen 150
Scott, Walter 123, 127–128, 145
Second Age of Discovery 4–5, 7, 77, 87
self-cultivation (Bildung) 78, 84–85, 91, 99, 101–105, 107–116, 135, 148–150, 152
Seymour, George 129
Shakespeare, William 139–141, 202, 239, 275, 291
Shaw, George Bernard 241–242, 296
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 142, 189, 230
Siddons, Sarah 143
Sidney Sussex College 58–61, 64, 69, 72, 76
Skinner, David 127
Snow, C. P. 205
Soret, Frédéric 120–121, 124, 139
Southey, Robert 127
South Sea Islands 8, 52, 87, 112, 132, 147
Speke, John 4
Spencer, Edmund 132
Staden, Hans 33, 38–41, 43, 45, 49, 52–53
Staël, Anne-Louise-Germaine de 119, 128
Steiner, Rudolf 325
stereotypes, ethnological 6, 8
Tahiti 5, 7, 88, 110, 113, 201
Taylor, William 121
Thackeray, William Makepeace 119, 121–123, 128, 137, 141–142, 146
Thoreau, Henry David 103
Ticknor, George 120, 122, 127, 129, 137, 144–145
travel, exploratory. See travelogues
travelogues 79, 81–93, 107–108, 111, 115–116, 132–133, 151, 168. See also libraries
collections of 79, 82, 107, 116
critical evaluation of 83
Mexican novels, social issues in 160–163
Mexican stories, representations of indios in 166–179
representation of government in 162, 173–175
representation of the Catholic Church in 175–178
Trithemius 25
universalism, anthropological 5, 111
‘universe within’ 11–12, 14, 202
Varnhagen von Ense, Karl August 129
Vespucci, Amerigo 20, 31–32, 87
Volney, Constantin-François 89, 92
Voltaire 82, 86, 195, 207, 234
Volz, Pia Daniela 325, 327, 329
Wagnerbuch 22, 25, 32–37, 40, 43, 45–46, 48, 53–54
Wald, George 184
Warden, D. B. 128
Wehler, Hans Ulrich 148
Weimar, in the Age of Goethe 114–115, 117–152
Wieland, Christoph Martin 5, 111–113, 135, 147, 209
Wilkins, John 201
Willoughby, L. A. 122
Winthrop, John 62, 66–68, 70, 74
Wordsworth, William 121, 127–128, 142
world literature 117, 126, 128
world literature, as ‘intellectual trade relations’ 125–130
zoos 79
