page_title: Saul Ascher
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Saul Ascher / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: humourofgermany00mlrich (find matches) Title: The humour of Germany; Year: 1909 (1900s) Authors: Müller-Casenov, Hans Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund), 1870-1938 Subjects: German wit and humor Publisher: London, The Walter Scott publishing co., ltd New York, C. Scribner's sons Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: OFF I WENT IN A FULL CANTER. Stay with me, until it was once more my lawful property. I hold you by your shadow, he added; and you will not escape me. A rich man like you cannot get on without a shadow. You are to be blamed in so far as you did not find that out before. von Chamisso (i 781-1838). 66 GERMAN HUMOUR. Text Appearing After Image: THE GHOST OF DR. ASCHER. THE night I spent at Goslar something very remarkable occurred. Terror seizes me even now as I think back. I am not timid by nature, but I have a mortal terror of ghosts. What is fear? Is it a product of the understanding or of the soul? About this question I had many a discussion with Dr. Saul Ascher in Berlin when we met in the Cafe Royal, where I used to dine. He would have THE GHOST OF DR. ASCHER. Be it that we fear a thing because our reason recognises there in due cause for terror. While I was eating and drinking to my satisfaction he was fond of constantly demonstrating the fine qualities of Reason. Toward the end of his demonstration he would look at his watch, and he always ended with: Reason is the highest principle! Reason! When I so much as hear the word I see before me Dr. Ascher with his abstract legs, his tight waistcoat of transcendental grey, and his harsh bitter cold face, which might have served as a title vignette to a book on geometry. The man was a Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Saul Ascher was a German writer, translator and bookseller.
context_section_description: Historically effect emancipation is Ascher behind other contemporary representatives of the fallen significantly. In his "Harz Journey", says Heinrich Heine of him. Ironically, he describes Ascher as "reason doctor" and leaves him after his death as a ghost appear, with the help of the teachings of Kant's "witching hour" the non-existence of ghosts seeking to prove-in. At the same time, Heine points out, however, Ascher have influenced him in his development. The literature professor Reinhold Steig deals in his book, "Heinrich von Kleist's Berliner struggles" (Stuttgart 1901) one-sided and distorted with Ascher and his disputes with Kleist.
  Walter grave was the first in 1977, basing on a dissertation by Fritz Pinkuss of 1928, representing an in-depth essay by Ascher. Even Peter Hacks has 1989 and 1990 in two papers, the title "Ascher against Jahn" were grouped under the order political classification and appraisal Asher tried one. An important role as a counter-figure to Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim played Ascher in the context of recent research on the relationship between romance and anti-Semitism (see "Literature" the study by Puschner).
  In his two-part essay, "The Falcon" has André Thielelast in his collection "A world in ruins," (2008) reprinted, preliminary work for a comprehensive biography Ascher presented the well as a bibliography of the primary title, compared to previously known to titles 50% is more extensive.
  In 2010, two new editions of works by Saul Ascher announced a one-volume selection from the work in the Böhlau Verlag, Bonn, and the first volume of a comprehensive edition of works published by André Thiele, Mainz.
caption: Illustration by C. E. Brock for The Ghost of Dr. Ascher as depicted in The humour of Germany (1909)
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