Contents

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1777) ........................................................................................................1

Georg Forster (1793) ............................................................................................................................2

Carolina Schlegel Schelling (1798) ......................................................................................................4

Alexander von Humboldt (1799) ..........................................................................................................6

Ludwig van Beethoven (1800) ..............................................................................................................8

     Review of the present tense, active voice

Wilhelm von Humboldt (1805) ............................................................................................................10

     Review of the narrative past, active voice

Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1808) .............................................................................................12

Bettina von Arnim (1834) ...................................................................................................................15

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1842) .................................................................................................19

Arthur Schopenhauer (1843) ..............................................................................................................22

     Review of the future tense, active voice

     Review of the conversational past

Robert Koch (1865) ............................................................................................................................25

Carl Schurz (1868) ..............................................................................................................................28

     Review of the past perfect and future perfect, active voice

     Review of the passive voice

     Review of the double-infinitive construction

Otto von Bismarck (1870) ..................................................................................................................31

Heinrich Schliemann (1872) ...............................................................................................................33

     Review of Subjunctive I and II

Friedrich Nietzsche (1884) .................................................................................................................36

Alfred Krupp (1884) ............................................................................................................................38

     Review of the uses of the subjunctive

Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin (1891) ..................................................................................................41

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1896) .......................................................................................................44

     Review of imperatives

     Review of German word order

Albert Einstein (1905) .........................................................................................................................46

 

 

Richard Strauß (1911) ........................................................................................................................48

Franz Kafka (1913) .............................................................................................................................50

Käthe Kollwitz (1915) .........................................................................................................................52

     Review of relative pronouns

     Review of the use of cases

Katharina Kippenberg (1915) ............................................................................................................54

Sigmund Freud (1922) .........................................................................................................................56

     Review of adjective endings

Max Reinhardt (1942) ........................................................................................................................59

Erwin Rommel (1944) .........................................................................................................................62

Ricarda Huch (1945) ...........................................................................................................................64

Elisabeth Langgässer (1945) ..............................................................................................................66

     Review of the comparison of adjectives and adverbs

Glossary ..............................................................................................................................................69

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