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“durchsturnren, durchdrangen” 27 describing Klinger, and to 
the words “Wurf- und Schwungmanner” and “Schwung- und 
Kraftmanner,” 28 Hildebrand closes his discussion. 
The Worterbuch article on “Drang,” 2. Band, column 
1334, supplements our material with the two following pas- 
sages from Jean Paul, both again of merely personal ap- 
plicability. 
Siebenkav (1796) : 2!> Er war bloss in Bayreuth dem freundschaft- 
lichen Sturm und Drang seines Leibgebers mit seinem sonst wahren 
Herzen gegen einen Freund erlegen. 
Titan (1800) : 30 Enter dem Essen sprach der Lektor mit wahrem 
Geschmack iiber die liebliche Gegend, aber mit wenig Sturm und Drang. 
Thus far the Grimm W orterbuch. The great authority and 
weight that it carries in this point, as in others, make the 
following detailed discussion seem worth while. 
In calling “Sturm- und Drangperiode” the most current 
( gangbarste ) designation for the period, Hildebrand, writing 
in the last decade of the nineteenth century, is correct, as we 
have seen. His objection to it, however, as describing not 
the heart of the movement but only a manifestation of it, is 
not universally shared today. Both Koch and Meyer, for ex- 
ample, seem to feel that it is a rather comprehensive and 
happy descriptive title. 
This brings us to the important statement, strongly empha- 
sized by Hildebrand ( was dock bemerkt set) that “Sturm und 
Drang” as applied to the movement is a name unknown 
( fremd ) to the eighteenth century, that it is of late literary 
origin, that hence it is found neither in Goethe, nor in Horn 
(1812), nor in Menzel (1828), but that Tieck used it in 1828 
in his Introduction to the edition of Lenz. 
The thoughtful reader will notice, however, that Hilde- 
brand is here not quite sure of his ground, and in a sense 
guilty of a contradiction. For while he denies the existence 
of the term (as applied to the movement) in the eighteenth 
century, and finds no occurrences prior to Tieck he admits 
2r “Dichtuncj und WaJirheit”, 8. Teil, 14. Buch. Weimar ed., .24. Band, p. 190. 
This passage, as well as others from Diohtung und WaJirheit, will be further discussed 
below. 
28 For “Wurf” see below on Nicolai. For “Schwung” see also Maler Muller, F'aust - 
( Literaturdenkmale, III, p. 20), where Atoti, speaking of the Storm and Stress poets, 
says: “zu beweisen, dass auch Schwung in ih'ren Armen sitzt.” 
23 D.N.L., Jean Paul, III, pp. 182-183. 
30 Op. cit., IV, p. 20. 
