7. Goethe, the brothers Grimm and academic Freedom

Fig. 10 [Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm], Kinder- und Hausmärchen, 2nd ed. (Berlin: Reimer, 1819–22), vol. 1 (1819), frontispiece and title page. Courtesy of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College. My subject is German professors. It may need a word by way of prefatory explanation. For if in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, especially in the nineteenth century, so few men and women of excellence in letters, the arts and learning in general were associated with universities, the old one...