ABSTRACT
Lowth in Germany can therefore for the most part be taken only in an indirect sense, above all in the context of what we today call reception history; and here Germany was almost exclusively at the receiving end. Michaelis's double review was only a prelude to the real reception of the Praelectiones in Germany. The address to the supposedly dead author evoked from him an exceedingly friendly response. In July 1762 Lowth wrote Michaelis a letter which if only it were somewhat shorter he would quote in full, as a document of Anglo-Saxon courtesy and generosity. Twenty-two letters written between 1762 and 1782, now in the possession of the Gttingen library,5353Bl. Michaelis had already praised the author of the Praelectiones as a poet and classical scholar, and the Isaiah commentators Rosenmller and Gesenius praised the Isaiah commentator in very similar words. The aesthetic aspect of the Old Testament became the central theme for the first time through Hermann Gunkel.
