In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

Hamelin September 15 1756 d. Among his students were Ludwig Tieck Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder and Alexander von Humboldt. Moritz's Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde als ein Lesebuch für Gelehrte und Ungelehrte (Journal of Experiential Psychology as reading for scholars and laymen) was one of the first Germanophone journals of psychology.

He led a life as a hatter's apprentice teacher journalist literary critic professor of art and linguistics and member of both of Berlin's academies. Karl Philipp Moritz (b. Berlin June 26 1793) was a German author editor and essayist of the Sturm und Drang late enlightenment and classicist periods influencing early German Romanticism as well.