The life and letters of Benjamin Jowett, M. A., master of Balliol college, Oxford.

I840-1846]

Tour in Germany

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In a letter to B. C. Brodie, where he sums up the
impressions derived from the tour, he mentions this
congress as especially memorable:' November 5, I844.
'I hardly know whether our tour will much interest you:
it went as far as Vienna, and with some disagreeables was
eminently successful. An infinite quantity of talk was one
result, for which there was some excuse, as we had nothing
else to do.... We returned by Dresden, where we saw
old Hermann, who seemed to be undergoing a sort of apotheosis at the hands of a great Philological Association who
dined and feted him in every possible way. Various others,
Zumpt's Latin Grammar, Thiersch's Greek Grammar, Wunder's
Sophocles, Lachmann's Greek Testament, who were formerly
supposed to be myths, also sprang up into life and reality.'
Though Stanley was the more enthusiastic traveller,
his companion appears to have had a chief part in
planning the details of the tour. Stanley would have
spent the whole of every day in sight-seeing, but Jowett
insisted on reserving certain hours for study: he had
brought the still recent Liddell and Scott amongst his
luggage; Stanley nicknamed this' the monster grievance,'
in allusion to a phrase of O'Connell's, and dubbed his
friend 'the inexorable Jowett.'
Although the posthumous influence of Hegel in his
own country had already culminated and was beginning
to decline, it was still powerful with many students of
Philosophy, and had begun to exercise a wide influence
upon Theology. The complete edition of his works and
his Life by Rosenkranz had lately appeared, and from
this visit to Germany, repeated in the following year,
Jowett's more intimate acquaintance with this special
phase of German philosophy may be dated 1. For several
1 Professor W. Wallace re- Mainz absorbed in Hegel's Preface
members Jowett telling him how to the Encyclopadie.
he once stood on a bridge at