Ueber das Leben und die Verdienste Johann von Dalbergs

promoted them or otherwise recommended them, and in this regard, his memory should have been preserved and brought down to us already in those times. Yet it is not entirely extinguished, and the scattered reports have, as it were, challenged me to venture a still-unripe attempt to present his merits more coherently and concentratedly from a single point of view, in order to make them visible to every discerning eye. Thus, many other deserving men and their merits may still be stuck in the dust and in oblivion, whose life circumstances deserve to be more closely illuminated, yet they remain shrouded in darkness. To be sure, here and there in small writings that appeared at the end of the 15th and at the beginning of the 16th century, there are fragments of information from which the memory of still-unknown and truly