Ueber das Leben und die Verdienste Johann von Dalbergs

had already said and added or discovered little that was new, made the elaboration difficult for me. He, above all others, would have been worthy of having his life and his merits described more precisely and coherently long ago. His scholarship was no web of superficial knowledge that merely floated on the surface; it was thorough and deep, drawn from the Alten the Ancient Greeks and Romans and modeled after them. He thereby spread a brilliance upon his high and ancient noble family, which can point to several promoters of scholarship, and he spread distinction upon his exalted dignity, which he held as Bishop in Worms. He sought his honor and his glory therein, and both he had made his own. Immortal are his merits regarding true scholarship, and immortal regarding the scholars whom he attracted to himself in those times; he