Rich as we are in Biography, a well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian

“Jean Paul Friedrich Richter,” Edinburgh Review #91, Art. 7 (Jun-Oct 1827)
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A review of Heinich Döring, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter's Life, with a Sketch of his Works (1826).