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Article: Ludwig Bechstein und die literarische Rezeption frühneuzeitlicher Hexenverfolgung im 19. Jahrhundert
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- German Quarterly
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- July 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright American Association of Teachers of German, Inc. Summer 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Schmidt, Burghart. Ludwig Bechstein unddie, literarische Rezeption frühneuzeitlicher Hexenverfolgung im 19. Jahrhundert. Hamburg: DOBU-Verlag, 2004. 412pp., 15 illust. euro39.90 hardcover.
Research on the persecution of (mostly) women as witches in the Early Modern Period continues to produce a flood of publications. This historical study (a 2004 Habilitationsschrift) examines the complex relation of fact and fiction in Ludwig Bechstein's anthology Hexengeschichten of 1854. The Meiningen librarian, archivist, and writer, better known for his anthologies of fairy tales, had access to historical sources, such as trial documents from the Thuringia region, which he perused and fictionalized in ...