Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... servative atmosphere. His mother was a daughter of the Grand Ducal Gardener of Carlsruhe. Thus he was trained to respect the established order of things. The lad on entering the Lyceum of Freiburg really applied his exceptional talents, and like Carl Schurz and other men of 1848, acquired the mastery of his native and of foreign languages. He enjoyed especially those works which treated of nature and human nature. He was not unlike Wilhelm Meister. Jerusalem Delivered, which he translated into German from the Italian, may have finally given to his wandering thoughts a definite direction. He also translated Latin and Greek poems. In the dull routine of school life, however, this lonesome child of nature found but scant opportunity to give expression to his innermost feelings and longings. And still he recorded his feelings and thoughts and carefully preserved his youthful writings to the very last. This collection gives the only direct material preserved which tells of the personal development of one of the great intellectual leaders of the Baden Revolution of 1848-1849 from the youth of fourteen to the Surgeon of the Army of the Republic of Baden, and explains why he still could pour his very life blood into an address delivered on the fiftieth anniversary of March 18, 1848. It is fair to assume that the life of this youth was not unlike the lives of the young scholars of Freiburg, Mannheim, and Carlsruhe and of the gymnasia in all parts of the German countries--like causes, like results. As mere boys, they were being prepared to sacrifice their freedom and their education for the common weal. Freedom, education and common weal have obtained a meaning in the year 1917 which has justified the endeavors of the youth of Baden, who were the...
