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Abstract

Figures 1 and 2 Felix Platter’s portrait (fig. 1) and the title page of Book III of his Observationes (1614) (fig. 2), the most widely recognized collection of medical case histories in early modern Europe 24 Figures 3 and 4 Carl Wilhelm Jerusalem (fig. 3) and the request for Kästner’s Reisepistole (fig. 4), which provided Goethe with a “true” case-history for his famous psychological novel Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774) 31 Figures 5, 6 and 7 Sturm und Drang dramatist Johann Michael Reinhold Lenz, 1751–1792 (fig. 5), who became the subject of Pastor Johann Friedrich Oberlin’s (fig. 6) case-history, and the physician and playwright Georg Büchner, 1813–1837 (fig. 7), who read Oberlin’s case-study and whose novella Lenz (written 1835–1836) is often regarded as one of the first truly modern literary texts 33 Figure 8 Albrecht Wolfgang Graf zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1699–1748) 156 Figure 9 The “Conversation with the Spirit” from the Protocol of the Case-History of Grendel, the Jewish girl whose father requests that a Rabbi be allowed to perform an exorcism, 1744 170 Figure 10 Engraving of “On the Narrative ‘The Criminal because of Lost Honor,’ by Schiller” 220