The first German researcher to reveal the connection between the Ingush man's phrase and the poem was Christian Friedrich Wurm in his ''Commentary on Göthe's West-Eastern Diwan''. This would later on be confirmed in the works of
Joseph Kürschner,
Dieter Borchmeyer and
Martin Mosebach. The following excerpt was published in the
Neue Speyerer Zeitung on 11 July 1820:A free Ingush in the Caucasus, who was told of the benefits he could receive if he went under the rule of the Russian Tsar, encouraged by his independence, proudly, boldly, and truly, replied: Neither Pope Gregory VII at Canossa, nor the Emperor Napoleon at Jena, could say so surely. Although their hats are bigger than that of the Ingush; but their hearts – not likely. == Music ==