Prefatory Note 
The following paper grew indirectly out of the writer’s 
interest and studies in the works of Ludwig Tieck, the 
Romanticist. Being familiar with Tieck’s essay on Lenz and 
with the generally prevalent belief that the term “Sturm und 
Drang,” as a designation for the literary movement, owes its 
inception to this essay, the writer was impelled to investigate 
the basis upon which our accepted notions of “Sturm und 
Drang” rest. It is hoped that the early references to the 
period which have been gathered from various sources in the 
course of this investigation will throw some light upon the 
history of the period and particularly upon the genesis of the 
name by which it is most widely known. 
Edwin H. Zeydel, Ph.D. 
Associate Professor of German. 
University of Cincinnati. 
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