Frankfurter Gelehrte Anzeigen

…new intellectual Frankfurt journal, the Frankfurter Gelehrte Anzeigen (“Frankfurt Review of Books”), which was hostile to the enlightened despotism of the German princely states, notably Prussia and Austria. He thereby effectively became part of the literary movement subsequently known as the Sturm und Drang (“Storm and Stress”). Both the political…

Merck helped found the periodical Frankfurter Gelehrte Anzeigen (1772), in which some of Goethe’s earliest pieces were published, and contributed to Nicolai’s journal, Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek, and Wieland’s Der teutsche Merkur. Merck also wrote many treatises on literature, art, and painting. His letters provide an invaluable source for the literary…