Students of the University of Jena: “First Petition to Karl August of Saxony–Weimar–Eisenach” and Karl August: “First Reply to the University of Jena” and Students of the University of Jena: “Second Petition to Karl August of Saxony–Weimar–Eisenach” and Karl August: “Second Reply to the University of Jena”

On 20 April 1799, the student Hermann Baier delivered the First Petition to Karl August of Saxony, Weimar, Eisenach to the Weimar Court. First Petition to Karl August of Saxony, Weimar, Eisenach, Hermann Johann Christoph Baier was a student from Swedish Pomerania. In their missive, which was signed by 280 students, the petitioners request that Fichte, a man whose great service to philosophy is acknowledged by every friend of truth and an instructor whose guidance we have been able to trust with complete confidence be retained at the University of Jena. First Petition to Karl August of Saxony, Weimar, Eisenach, On the same day, Karl August rejected this petition in a letter addressed to the University of Jena: The princely courts have been persuaded to accept the proclaimed demand for the resignation of Fichte the appropriate rescripts pertaining there to have been enacted, so please disclose this to the petitioners as they seem not to be informed about the matter.