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There’s nothing better than finding a cheeky marginal doodle or two, and that’s what we found when we picked up an otherwise nondescript copy of Julius Stinde’s Buchholzens in Italien at a recent fair. First published anonymously in Berlin in 1883, Stinde’s satirical…

To judge from the entry for Christoph Meiners (1747–1810) in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, one would think he was always either reading a book, or writing one.  His impressive, if fearsome output includes speculative philosophy, psychology, theology, and history after history (of religion, science in the Ancient World, women, law).  Meiners’ views on race (he […]