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1.   Romanticism: Friedrich Karl Wilhelm von Schlegel: Excerpts from Selected Works (1798-1804)
In the following excerpts from Athenaeum Fragments (1798), The Fundamentals of Gothic Architecture (1803), and Appeal to Painters of the Present Day (1804), the writer, philosopher,....
2.   Ernst Moritz Arndt, "The German Fatherland" (1813)
Born and raised on the island of Rügen, then part of Sweden, the poet, writer, and nationalist publicist Ernst....
3.   German Federal Act (June 8, 1815)
The general agreement between the German states with respect to the founding of a Confederation was first signed by 35 individual states and four free cities (Lübeck, Hamburg, Bremen, and Frankfurt)....
4.   Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Excerpts from Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline (1817)
The philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), the most eminent representative of German....
5.   Preface to the Second Edition of the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1819)
The brothers Jakob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) collected proverbs and myths, and compiled....
6.   Clemens Prince von Metternich to Friedrich Gentz in Perugia (June 17, 1819); Metternich's Reply to Gentz's Letter of June 3, 1819
In the following letter of June 17, 1819, Austrian Chancellor Clemens Prince von Metternich (1773-1859)....
7.   Carlsbad Decrees: Confederal Press Law (September 20, 1819)
From August 6-31, 1819, under the influence of Clemens Prince von Metternich (1773-1859), ministers....
8.   Report by the Prussian District Government in Koblenz on the Jewish Population (1820)
The report by the Prussian district government in Koblenz from January 25, 1820, establishes normative criteria for the granting of equal citizenship rights, including adherence to a particular faith,....
9.   Final Act of the Viennese Ministerial Conferences (May 15, 1820)
The rules laid out in the German Federal Act were to be quickly supplemented by a Basic Law....
10.   Excerpt from Clemens Prince von Metternich's Political Creed (1820)
In the following excerpt from his political creed, Clemens Prince von Metternich expands upon the....
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