Ueber das Leben und die Verdienste Johann von Dalbergs

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their zeal for the best interests of scholarship went so far that they also sought to found a gelehrte Gesellschaft learned society, (4) which, however, because nothing further became known of it, seems not to have come to fruition. Thus, the most useful Anstalten institutions often perish, suffocated in their first birth, and the best intentions of noble-minded men for the promotion of learning are thwarted because they are not supported. It was certainly not a lack of scholars who could have worthily presided over such an institution

(4) See the Leipziger gelehrte Zeitungen Leipzig Scholarly Journals, Number 28, for the year 1737. On this occasion, the learned Benedictine Oliver Legipont, of the Monastery of Saint Martin in Cologne, published a work in folio consisting of four and a half sheets under the following title: original Latin: "Oliverii Legipont, Coenobitæ S. Martini Coloniensis, Discursus Paræneticus ad æquos bonarum artium Æstimatores, pro Bibliotheca publica & societate eruditorum in primaria Germaniæ Metropoli urbe Moguntina, feliciter erigenda, promovenda & stabilienda." A Parænetic Discourse to Just Appraisers of Fine Arts, by Oliver Legipont, Monk of Saint Martin in Cologne, for the Successful Establishment, Promotion, and Stabilization of a Public Library and a Society of Scholars in the Primary German Metropolis, the City of Mainz. Legipont took upon himself the organization of the library of the Lords of Dalberg, which gave him the occasion for this writing; it was also organized with the intention of designating it for public use. But both remained a frommer Wunsch pious wish. See Magnoald Ziegelbauer, original Latin: "historia rei litterariæ Ord. S. Benedicti" History of the Literary Affairs of the Order of Saint Benedict, Part IV, page 517.

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