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Martin Black

Johann Gottfried Seume's Grand Stroll to Syracuse.

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In Dresden


New here? Start with Johann Gottfried Seume Stroll to Syracuse project.


December 1801: Seume arrives in Dresden, noting the ‘gloomy, unfortunate, dehumanised faces'.

The city displeases him, he complains of the lack of stre...

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Meissen


New here? Start with Johann Gottfried Seume Stroll to Syracuse project.


Meissen is famous for porcelain. The code for producing hard-paste porcelain in Europe was cracked here in 1707 by Johann Friedrich Böttger.1

Böttger’s...

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Grimma


New to this substack? Find out more about Johann Gottfried Seume.


I buckled on my knapsack in Grimma, and we set off1

Johann Gottfried Seume set out from Grimma in December 1801. More than two hundred years later, in early...

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Seume update : January 2026

In 1987, when I last visited Germany, the DDR still existed and Berlin had a wall.

Almost forty years later, everything has changed and I’m here once more, this time to start my grand stroll to Syracuse.

In January of this year, I spent f...

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In Leipzig

Leipzig in 1757

In November, while spending a few days in Berlin1, I took the opportunity for a day trip to Leipzig, the city in which Seume spent half his life. In his Leipzig, one building helped shape him and another gave him shelter....

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    Johann Gottfried Seume set out to walk to Syracuse in 1801. I'm doing the same.

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