This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...a few friends. The newly-married pair resided at first in the neighbourhood of Heilbronn, in the beautifully-situated little castle at the entrance to the village of Sontheim, and afterwards at Heilbronn itself, where full opportunity was afforded for intercourse with friends. Strauss here enjoyed the intimacy of the two friends of his youth, Marklin and Kaufmann, and SOCIAL ENJOYMENTS. 83 their wives, the one professor at the Gymnasium, closely connected with him by similarity of studies and opinions ever since their university life, a man whose sound and amiable character has been delineated with warmth and spirit by Strauss in his well-known biography; the other by vocation a teacher of mathematics, but at the same time a distinguished musician, whose natural and kindly nature expressed itself in charming vocal compositions. In addition to these, Kerner and his family resided at the adjacent Weinsberg; the eldest daughter was married at Heilbronn to Strauss's friend and physician Dr. Niethhammer; and besides these there was a circle, by no means small, in which Strauss found stimulant and recreation, especially in the regular evening meetings of the men; college tutors, such as Finckh and Schnitzer, both of whom have gained reputation by philosophical works, and the latter also by theological ones, and, on the removal of the latter, Rlimelin, now Chancellor of the University of Tubingen; civil functionaries, and physicians, such as the original Dr. Sicherer, well known to the readers of Strauss's G 2 'Kleine Schriften n by Strauss's oration to his memory; merchants, such as the universally respected Goppelt and Kunzel, immortalised jestingly by Strauss also in the' Kleine Schriften,'2 whose constant and ready obligingness in matters of daily life he requ...
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