Karl, Grand Duke of Frankfurt, Royal Highness: In a Lecture at the Museum in Frankfurt

to bring even more honor to himself, his rank, his parents, and his entire noble baronial family, and to cast an even more magnificent luster upon them. In Mainz, the former electoral residence and metropolitan city, which is now subject to France, he applied himself to languages, arts, and especially the humanities, of which he subsequently presented to the public such magnificent samples as speaking proofs of his excellent genius. In physics and the history of scholars, he was instructed by the most famous teachers in Würzburg. Yet these were, as it were, only literary preparations, in which he nevertheless made the most commendable progress to the general admiration of his teachers, in order to make himself capable of higher sciences through them, and to be able to enter the higher temple of wisdom with all the more courage, with firm conviction in his intellectual and spiritual powers. Mindful that some of his ancestors were educated at the old high school in Heidelberg, the oldest in Germany, and that they were chancellors and rectors of it, he chose Heidelberg as his seat of the Muses,