Frances Wilson

How the quarrelsome ‘Jena set’ paved the way for Hitler

A group of warring 18th-century intellectuals, devoted to the theory of the ‘Ich’, left a dangerous legacy

Portrait of Friedrich Schiller, by Gerhard von Kügelgen. One of his poems, wrote Friedrich Schlegel, was so bad it was best read backwards. [Bridgeman Images]
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