GERMAN LITERATURE.
INTRODUCTION.—1. German Literature and its Divisions.—2. The Mythology. —3. The Language.
PERIOD FIRST—1. Early Literature; Translation of the Bible by Ulphilas; the Hildebrand Lied.—2. The Age of Charlemagne; his Successors; the Ludwig's Lied; Roswitha; the Lombard Cycle.—3. The Suabian Age; the Crusades; the Minnesingers; the Romances of Chivalry; the Heldenbuch; the Nibelungen Lied.—4. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries; the Mastersingers; Satires and Fables; Mysteries and Dramatic Representations; the Mystics; the Universities; the Invention of Printing.
PERIOD SECOND.—From 1517 to 1700.—1. The Lutheran Period: Luther,
Melanchthon.—2. Manuel, Zwingle, Fischart, Franck, Arnd, Boehm.—3.
Poetry, Satire, and Demonology; Paracelsus and Agrippa; the Thirty Years'
War.—4. The Seventeenth Century: Opitz, Leibnitz, Puffendorf, Kepler,
Wolf, Thomasius, Gerhard; Silesian Schools; Hoffmannswaldau, Lohenstein.
PERIOD THIRD.—1. The Swiss and Saxon Schools; Gottsched, Bodmer, Rabener,
Gellert, Kästner, and others.—2. Klopstock, Lessing, Wieland, and Herder.
—3. Goethe and Schiller.—4. The Göttingen School: Voss, Stolberg,
Claudius, Bürger, and others.—5. The Romantic School: the Schlegels,
Novalis; Tieck, Körner, Arndt, Uhland, Heine, and others.—6. The Drama:
Goethe and Schiller; the Power Men; Müllner, Werner, Howald, and
Grillparzer.—7. Philosophy: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer,
and Hartmann. Science: Liebig, Du Bois-Raymond, Virchow, Helmholst,
Haeckel.—8. Miscellaneous Writings.