Abstract
Abstract This survey chapter examines how theological assumptions and ideas contributed to the formation of German nationalist ideas during the cultural and political upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars, in the period between the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, and the founding of the Deutscher Bund in 1815. In doing so, it considers significant emergent historiography and scholarship on the cultural and political developments in the period. The chapter outlines how intellectuals including Friedrich Schleiermacher, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and G. W. F. Hegel contributed to the notion of a unified German nation. It explores the genesis of discourse around the notion of a German Kulturnation, and considers Johann Gottfried von Herder’s influence on conceptions of national identity. It also introduces subsequent chapters in this part of the volume by making connections between the theological agenda of the early German nationalists and contemporary views on the place of theology in the university.
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