We are very glad to give notice of the release of volumes 14,1-2 and 15,1-2 of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi‘s Briefwechsel (frommann-holzboog, 2025).

Volume 14,1-2, edited by Catia Goretzki, includes the correspondence between August 1805 and December 1810.
Volume 15,1-2, edited by Manuela Köppe, contains the correspondence from Jacobi’s final years in Munich, from January 1811 to March 1819.

With the publication of these volumes, subsidised by the Saxon Academy of Sciences, the critical edition of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi’s correspondence in the Academy edition (Reihe I: Text, edited by Walter Jaeschke and Birgit Sandkaulen) is now complete.

Band 14,1-2: Briefwechsel August 1805 bis Dezember 1810

The correspondence in this volume marks the beginning of Jacobi’s life in Munich in August 1805 and covers the years up to December 1810, which are politically characterised by the Third, Fourth and Fifth Coalition Wars (1805, 1806/07 and 1809). As the designated president of the reorganised Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, which he held from 1807 onwards, Jacobi was actively involved in the controversy that broke out between the Bavarian and the newly appointed »North German« scholars and in which, among other things, the battle against the realistic-philanthropic teaching concept was fought out in favour of the neo-humanist educational ideal. The dispute over Schelling’s Philosophy of Nature is also central, in the course of which the dispute opened by Jacobi in 1811/12 is prepared.

Band 15,1-2: Briefwechsel Januar 1811 bis März 1819

This volume contains the correspondence from the final Munich years of Jacobi’s life (1811–1819). The most significant public event of this period is the so-called »Theismusstreit«. Occasioned by Jacobi’s work On Divine Things and Their Revelation (1811), to which Schelling responded in 1812 with his Denkmal, the controversy resonated widely. In the following years, Jacobi devoted himself to the edition of his collected works (1812–1825), for which he newly composed an »Introduction« to his complete writings (1815). His correspondents during this period include, among others, Friedrich Ludewig Bouterwek, Jakob Friedrich Fries, Goethe, Jean Paul, Johannes Baptist Joseph Neeb, Friedrich Christoph Perthes, Karl Johann Friedrich Roth, and Friedrich Schlegel.

 

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