ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the milieu of Gottingen's lectures and professors during the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the few intellectuals whose descriptions of the university have survived in his letters and notebooks. Coleridge's studies at Gottingen embody a dual articulation: one that provides contextual insight into Coleridge for literary critics and biographers, and another that documents Coleridge as a participant in European intellectual history. A closer examination will disentangle how these were a dual-product of the cosmopolitan intellectualism at the University of Gottingen and Coleridge's singular genius in positioning himself within it. The cosmopolitan milieu of the university professors, lectures, and institutions aimed to cultivate a world citizenry of scholars. Within this intellectual culture, it is clear that Coleridge shared the hard-working goals of contemporary foreign students and scholars to import and disseminate their Gottingen learning in their native environments.
