Sarah Schmidt

Das doppelte Lottchen oder: Schleiermachers Briefwechsel mit Charlotte von Kathen und Charlotte Cummerow

This article is a report from the edition of Schleiermacher’s correspondence within the critical Schleiermacher edition (Kritische Gesamtausgabe, KGA) and puts forth a surprising revision which was discovered during work on vol. 10 (1808–1810): with the exception of one letter the letters from Schleiermacher’s sister-in-law and friend of Ernst-Moritz Arndt, Charlotte von Kathen (1778–1850), to Friedrich Schleiermacher, should be attributed to a different Charlotte, Schleiermachers’s friend Charlotte Cummerow. The correspondence between Friedrich Schleiermacher and Charlotte Cummerow was assumed until now not to have been handed down. The article shows with a look at the transmission history how this false attribution came about through Dilthey and which indications led to this revision. The delineated description here of the two correspondences is completed by a tabular overview of the revised correspondences of Schleiermacher with Charlotte von Kathen and Charlotte Cummerow.