Jules Michelet
As a translator, Spielhagen rendered into German George William Curtis's "Howadji", Ralph Waldo Emerson's "English Traits", a selection of American poems (1859; 2d ed. 1865), and William Roscoe's "Lorenzo de' Medici". He also translated from the French minor works of Jules Michelet: "L'amour", "La femme", "La mer".