Beschrijving
Francfort sur le Main, Frederic Wilmans, 1814, 600pp. attractive marbled paper on board binding, gilt title pasted on spine. Good clean copy. Written by Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746-1818). Joachim Heinrich Campe (29 June 1746 – 22 October 1818) was a German writer, linguist, educator and publisher. He was a major representative of philanthropinism and the German Enlightenment. Campe is counted among the founding fathers of the modern genre of intentional or specific childrens and youth literature, along with the writers Christian Felix Weiße and Christian Gotthilf Salzmann. He created a series of works for children and adolescents that were each supposed to be educational, pleasant and directed at a specific age group. His publications ranged from alphabet books to a collection of translated and own travelogues and to guidance or conduct books for boys and girls. Probably his best-known work is his Robinson der Jüngere (1779/80), a free adaptation of Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe (1719) based on Rousseau's suggestions in his Émile.For Reinhard Stach, Robinson was Campe's fate, while for Winfred Kaminski it presents the peak of philanthropinist pedagogy. The book became very popular and was published more than a hundred times in the 19th century. It was translated into English as Robinson the Younger in 1781/82 and into many other European and non European languages. In many languages, it was the first published children's book. This is a French edition publised in Germany.
