Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany

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NOTES INTRODUCTION 1. Jules Laforgue, Berlin:The City and the Court (Turtle Point, 1996), 166;William Binns,“Science, Theology, and the Evolution of Man,” Modern Review 1 (April 1880): 261; Augustus D.Waller, “Emil du Bois-Reymond. 1818–1896,” Year-Book of the Royal Society of London 6 (1902): 225; “Emil du Bois-Reymond,” The New International Encyclopædia (Dodd, Mead, 1906), 6: 489; Frank G. Brooks,“Charles Wardell Stiles,” Systematic Zoology 13, no. 4 (1964): 221. 2. Owen Chadwick, The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century (Canto, 1993), 184. 3. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, My Recollections, 1848–1914 (Chatto and Windus, 1930), 224. 4. EdBR to JC, Bielefeld, 23 March 1877, 30 March [18]84, Dep. 5 K. 11 Nr. 5. 5. Raoul Pictet,“Emile du Bois-Reymond,” Journal de Genève 68, no. 17 (1897), 2. 6. EB to EdBR, 22 January 1865, Brücke letters, 1: 140–141. 7. Søren Kierkegaard, Diary (Philosophical Library, 1960), 95. 8. Robert G. Frank Jr., “Instruments, Nerve Action, and the All-or-Nothing Principle,” Instruments , ed.AlbertVan Helden and Thomas L. Hankins, Osiris, 2nd ser., 9 (1994): 208–235; Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann, “The Patch Clamp Technique,” Scientific American 266, no. 3 (1992): 44–51. 9. Paul F.Cranefield,“Carl Ludwig and Emil Du Bois-Reymond:A Study in Contrasts,”Gesnerus 45, no. 3 (1988): 271–282. 10. Reden, 2: 47. 11. The Education of Henry Adams (Modern Library, 1996), 389. 12. Reden, 1: 321. CHAPTER 1 1. James J. Sheehan, German History, 1770–1866 (Clarendon, 1989), 55–56, 116–117, 485–486. 2. Gordon A. Craig, The Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640–1945 (Clarendon, 1955), 9–36, 116. 292 NOTES TO CHAPTER 1 3. Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution (Doubleday, 1955), 229, quoted by John R. Gillis, The Prussian Bureaucracy in Crisis 1840–1860 (Stanford University Press, 1971), 6. 4. Amos Elon, The Pity of It All (Metropolitan Books, 2002), 43. 5. Julius Bab and Willi Handl, Wien und Berlin (Oesterheld, 1918), 201. 6. Heinrich Heine, Journey to Italy (Marsilio, 1998), 8–9. 7. Reden, 2: 301–320. 8. Félix du Bois-Reymond was born 22 August 1782 in St. Sulpice. Eugénie Rosenberger, Félix Du Bois-Reymond, 1782–1865 (Meyer and Jessen, 1912). 9. Its official name (after 1818) was Königliches medizinisch-chirugisch FriedrichWilhelms -Institut. 10. Reden, 1: 51–83. 11. Félix-Henri du Bois-Reymond, Kadmus oder allgemeine Alphabetik vom physikalischen, physiologischen und graphischen Standpunkt (Dümmler, 1862); “German Literature,” Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art 13, no. 338 (1862): 452. 12. Family tree, Dep. 5 K. 2. 13. Du Bois-Reymond,“Erman,” 520–521. 14. Reden, 2: 332. 15. Jugendbriefe, 9. 16. Alfred E. Hoche, Jahresringe (Lehmanns, 1940), 84–85. 17. W[alter] H. Bruford, The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation (Cambridge University Press, 1975). 18. Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, marginalia in Henrich Steffens, Die gegenwärtige Zeit und wie sie geworden (Reimer, 1817), 780, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße, Handschriftenabteilung, Bibl.Varn., Nr. 960; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels (Chapman and Hall, 1899), 1: 327–329. 19. Anthony Grafton,“Polyhistor into Philolog:Notes on theTransformation of German Classical Scholarship, 1780–1850,” History of Universities 3 (1983): 159–192. 20. Rosenberger, Félix, 273. 21. The siblings included Julie (b. 1816), Emil (b. 1818), Gustave (b. 1823), Félicie (b. 1825), and David-Paul Gustave (Paul) (b. 1831). 22. Rosenberger, Félix, 306–307. 23. Emil du Bois-Reymond, “Journal de mon voyage à Dresde, 1829” (22 July—29 August 1829), Dep. 5 Kapsel 8 Nr. 1. 24. Du Bois-Reymond,“Dresde.” 25. EB to EdBR, 12 January 1860, Brücke letters, 1: 111. 26. Horace Mann, “Report of 1843,” Annual Reports of the Secretary of the Board of Education of Massachusetts for the Years 1839–1844 (Lee and Shepard, 1891), 230–418; Käte Silber, Pestalozzi (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965). 27. Johann Bernhard Basedow, Elementarwerk mit den Kupfertafeln Chodowieckis u. a. (1774; Olms, 1972). 28. Félix du Bois-Reymond worked as Civiladjutant to General-Major Ernst von Pfeul, the governor of Neuchâtel. NOTES TO CHAPTER 1 293 29. “Journal de notre voyage à Neufchâtel” (11 June 1830–29 October 1831), Dep. 5 Kapsel 8, hereafter “Neuchâtel.” 30. Dep. 5 M. 9. “Without drawing...