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THOMAS CARLYLE'S GOETHE MASK REVISITED
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ABSTRACT Thomas Carlyle's copy of a life mask of Goethe is one of the most significant Goethe masks outside Germany, particularly because it is a testimony to Carlyle's role in developing strong cultural relations between Scotland and Germany in the nineteenth century, and because of his close connections with Goethe and Weimar. However, Carlyle scholars have always thought his Goethe mask was a death mask, since he states this in his letters, despite the fact that no death mask of Goethe was ever made. This essay documents the wider context of the making of the original life mask of Goethe in Weimar, and its links to Franz Joseph Gall's popularisation of the science of cranioscopy in Germany, 1805–7. It also gives an account of how Carlyle acquired the mask, and what happened to it after his death. Earlier research on Carlyle's Goethe mask maintained that it had been lost and rediscovered in the 1980s; this article offers new evidence that its whereabouts have always been known. It also reveals that, after Carlyle, it was owned by the Scottish professors David Masson and Peter Hume Brown, both of whom contributed to the transfer of knowledge of Goethe's life and works to Britain.Eine der wichtigsten Kopien der Lebendmaske von Goethe außerhalb Deutschlands gehörte Thomas Carlyle. Sie ist ein Zeugnis der bedeutenden Rolle Carlyles in der Entwicklung des kulturellen Austausches zwischen Schottland und Deutschland im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Obwohl es nie eine Todesmaske von Goethe gegeben hat, haben Carlyle‐Forscher jedoch immer behauptet, sie sei eine Todesmaske, hauptsächlich weil sie Carlyle in seinen Briefen so beschrieben hat. In diesem Aufsatz wird der historische Kontext um die Herstellung der ursprünglichen Lebendmaske Goethes in Weimar besprochen und ihre Verbindung zu Franz Joseph Galls Popularisierung der Wissenschaft der Kranioskopie in Deutschland zwischen 1805 und 1807 erläutert. Im Folgenden wird darüber berichtet, wie Carlyle zu der Maske gekommen und was nach seinem Tod genau mit ihr passiert ist, da man bis zu den 1980‐ern Carlyles Goethe‐Maske für verschollen hielt. Neue Beweismittel belegen, dass der Aufenthaltsort der Maske bis heute immer bekannt war und dass sie nach Carlyles Ableben von den schottischen Professoren David Masson und Peter Hume Brown geerbt wurde. Sowohl Masson als auch Hume Brown trugen entscheidend zum Wissenstransfer über Goethes Leben und Werke nach Großbritannien bei.
Title: THOMAS CARLYLE'S GOETHE MASK REVISITED
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ABSTRACT Thomas Carlyle's copy of a life mask of Goethe is one of the most significant Goethe masks outside Germany, particularly because it is a testimony to Carlyle's role in developing strong cultural relations between Scotland and Germany in the nineteenth century, and because of his close connections with Goethe and Weimar.
However, Carlyle scholars have always thought his Goethe mask was a death mask, since he states this in his letters, despite the fact that no death mask of Goethe was ever made.
This essay documents the wider context of the making of the original life mask of Goethe in Weimar, and its links to Franz Joseph Gall's popularisation of the science of cranioscopy in Germany, 1805–7.
It also gives an account of how Carlyle acquired the mask, and what happened to it after his death.
Earlier research on Carlyle's Goethe mask maintained that it had been lost and rediscovered in the 1980s; this article offers new evidence that its whereabouts have always been known.
It also reveals that, after Carlyle, it was owned by the Scottish professors David Masson and Peter Hume Brown, both of whom contributed to the transfer of knowledge of Goethe's life and works to Britain.
Eine der wichtigsten Kopien der Lebendmaske von Goethe außerhalb Deutschlands gehörte Thomas Carlyle.
Sie ist ein Zeugnis der bedeutenden Rolle Carlyles in der Entwicklung des kulturellen Austausches zwischen Schottland und Deutschland im neunzehnten Jahrhundert.
Obwohl es nie eine Todesmaske von Goethe gegeben hat, haben Carlyle‐Forscher jedoch immer behauptet, sie sei eine Todesmaske, hauptsächlich weil sie Carlyle in seinen Briefen so beschrieben hat.
In diesem Aufsatz wird der historische Kontext um die Herstellung der ursprünglichen Lebendmaske Goethes in Weimar besprochen und ihre Verbindung zu Franz Joseph Galls Popularisierung der Wissenschaft der Kranioskopie in Deutschland zwischen 1805 und 1807 erläutert.
Im Folgenden wird darüber berichtet, wie Carlyle zu der Maske gekommen und was nach seinem Tod genau mit ihr passiert ist, da man bis zu den 1980‐ern Carlyles Goethe‐Maske für verschollen hielt.
Neue Beweismittel belegen, dass der Aufenthaltsort der Maske bis heute immer bekannt war und dass sie nach Carlyles Ableben von den schottischen Professoren David Masson und Peter Hume Brown geerbt wurde.
Sowohl Masson als auch Hume Brown trugen entscheidend zum Wissenstransfer über Goethes Leben und Werke nach Großbritannien bei.
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