Wilhelm von Humboldt

Schriften zur Bildung

This 1836-9 publication analyses the classical literary language of Java in the context of Sanskrit and several Pacific languages.

Über die Kawi-sprache auf der Insel Java

Wilh. v Humboldt's Briefe an eine Freundin

Briefe an eine Freundin

Briefe an eine Freundin [i.e. Charlotte Diede]

Wilhelm Freiherr von Humboldt

The Limits of State Action

Gesammelte Werke

sein Leben und Wirken, dargestellt in Briefen, Tagebüchern und Dokumenten seiner Zeit

1788 lernte von Humboldt Caroline von Dacheröden kennen, die er dann 1791 heiratete. Mit ihrem überlieferten Briefwechsel, für den ein von beiden Eheleuten gepflegter Ton wechselseitiger Idealisierung bezeichnend ist, schufen Caroline und Wilhelm von Humboldt ein Orientierungsmuster des Geschlechterverhältnisses für das deutsche Bürgertum im 19. und noch im 20. Jahrhundert.

eBook Edition

A Complete Ed., Translated from the 2d German Ed

Letters to a Female Friend

Ueber den Dualis

Humboldt Wilhelm von

A classic study of human language, its structures, and its relation to mind and culture.

On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and Its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species

Humboldt: 'On Language'

This text is important both as one of the most interesting contributions to the liberalism of the German Enlightenment, and as the most significant source for the ideas which John Stuart Mill popularized in his essay On Liberty. Humboldt's concern is to define the criteria by which the permissible limits of the state's activities may be determined. His basic principle, like that of Mill, is that the only justification for government interference is the prevention of harm to others. He discusses in detail the role and limits of the state's responsibility for the welfare, security and morals of its citizens. Humboldt's special achievement in this work is to enlarge our sense of what a liberal political theory might be by his particularly sensitive grasp of the complexity of our attitudes to and our need of other people. Dr Burrow has based his translation on Coulthard's version of 1854. In an important introduction, he provides a most perceptive as well as scholarly guide to Humboldt's political thought.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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