Author	Heier, Edmund. author
Title	L.H. Nicolay (1737-1820) and his Contemporaries [electronic resource] : Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, Gluck, Metastasio, Galiani, D'Escherny, Gessner, Bodmer, Lavater, Wieland, Frederick II, Falconet, W. Robertson, Paul I, Cagliostro, Gellert, Winckelmann, Poinsinet, Lloyd, Sanchez, Masson, and others / by Edmund Heier
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1965
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3564-4
Descript	VIII, 207 p. online resource

Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay (1737-1820) is virtually unknown in our time. Yet at the close of the eighteenth century he enjoyed a considerable reputation as a German poet of the French neo-classical orientation. He was esteemed as tutor to the Russian Emperor Paul I, as Russian State Counciller, and as President of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences. Moreover he was a friend of the most prominent eighteenth century minds that left their imprints on modern thought. As such a man, Nicolay may be studied from several points of view, as a writer, as an educator and as an intellectual. My first preoccupation with Nicolay was of a literary natur- which resulted in a doctoral dissertation presented to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (1960), under the title "Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay (1737-1820) as an exponent of neo-classicism. " The existence of the Nicolay archives, now in the possession of the Countess von der Pahlen in Helsinki, was not known to me at the time. Having later gained access to the same, I discovered a vast amount of un pubยญ lished documents and a treasury of correspondence with the leading intellectuals of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Much of this material was to be published in conjunction with the late Count N. von der Pahlen, who unexpectedly and unfortuยญ nately died in 1963

Introduction: Nicolay, a neglected figure -- Previous studies on Nicolay; Aim of the present study -- One Nicolay the man and writer -- I: Nicolay and Western Europe, 1737-1768 -- II: In the service of the Russian State, 1769-1803 -- III: Retirement, 1803-1820 -- Two Nicolay's โErinnerungenโ -- IV: Nicolay's approach to his subject matter -- V: Nicolay's account of the Encyclopedists and their associates in Paris -- VI: Nicolay's account of his associates in Vienna, Berlin and Zรถrich -- VII: Nicolay's account of his associates in St. Petersburg

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