Friedrich August: “Saxon Letter of Requisition to the Weimar Court” and Karl August: “Weimar Rescript to the University of Jena”

Shortly after the publication of J. G. Fichte’s “On the Ground of Our Belief in a Divine World-Governance” and F. K. Forberg’s “Development of the Concept of Religion” in the Philosophisches Journal, ¹ and shortly after the publication of the anonymous A Father’s Letter to his Student Son about Fichte’s and Forberg’s Atheism, ² members of the Dresden High Consistory approached Elector Friedrich August with a letter protesting the atheistic content of Forberg’s essay, questioning the open expression of irreligious principles in the schools, and requesting confiscation of the Philosophisches Journal. ³