Robert: A Clerical Novel by Adolf FuchsAuthorHouse, 2005 M02 8 - 528 pages In the novel’s Preface, the Author states:
“In a few short words, the content of the book is this: A boy dedicates himself to the clerical profession with the fire of childlike enthusiasm, the youth goes astray in his profession, and the man, ‘because not all flowering dreams ripened,’ has the notion of giving it up and ‘fleeing to the desert.’ Yet Heaven has decided otherwise. With resignation he comes back to himself and begins again to believe in his calling. Besides this, everything which is presented in the book belongs partly to the characteristics of the hero appearing in it, partly to the characteristics of our time chiefly with regard to religious, ecclesiastical, and especially clerical matters.” |
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... least 200 years it has been considered to be the most agrarian of the German states, and the most conservative. This 162-year-old novel, written in an archaic form of German and printed in the antique Gothic typeface, has not been ...
... least his sons were. He loved to hunt. He died on December 9, 1885, and is buried in the Fuchs Cemetery in Burnet County, Texas, which became a designated State of Texas landmark in 1995. His wife Luise died on March 1, 1886, and she is ...
... least one German record indicates that he was financially secure enough to be able to afford the trip to America and to make a start there. His father had a comparatively lucrative position as Superintendent in the hierarchy of the ...
... least the names of classic authors like Goethe and Schiller, and composers like Haydn and Mozart were immediately recognizable. But there were many more names of poets and philosophers, artists and musicians, theologians and physicians ...
... Kenneth W. Fuchs. When he went out of the church, Robert was more determined than ever to become, if not a superintendent, then at the least a minister. Chapter Three Kein Feuer, keine Kohle Kann brennen so heiß, 9 Adolf Fuchs Robert.