Dear List Member,
Tonight the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations welcomes Prof. Dr. Peter Sprengel to its BASF Lecture Series. Prof. Sprengel's lecture will be on: 'Kulturmission und Entsagung oder Rekonstruktion einer Briefliebe: Karl August Varnhagen und Charlotte Williams Wynn'.
When: 13 December 2022, 18:30 (GMT), online
Please register to receive the Zoom link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/basf-lecture-tickets-474688645517
About the lecture:
Three years after the death of his wife, the salonniere Rahel Levin, the writer, critic, collector and former diplomat Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (1785-1858) met an Englishwoman 22 years his junior, with whom he remained in close correspondence until the end of his life and whom he almost married. Hundreds of letters, which have only recently emerged from private British possession, paint a touching picture of an intercultural encounter including German lessons of a special kind. For Charlotte Williams Wynn (1807-1869), the daughter of a long-serving member of the House of Commons and a member of the Welsh landed gentry, learned German from Varnhagen and for his sake and, supported by numerous book parcels from Berlin, trained her language skills in excessive reading that did not even stop at Kant and Hegel.
All welcome.
Your Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/cagcr/
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