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XII. Some Account of Frederick Augustus Eschew, 

 •who ivas fwallowed up in a FiJJure of the Snow in the 

 Glacier of Buet*. 



jl Rederick Augustus Eschen was born in 1777, 

 at Eutin, in the circle of Lower Saxony, where his father 

 enjoyed a public office, which gave him an opportunity of 

 having frequent intercourfe with the archbifhop of Lubec, 

 >vereign, by whom he was highly efteemed. The prince 

 flood godfather to this fori, and inverted him with the ca- 

 nonicate. Being the eldeft of a numerous family, young 

 Efchen was detiined for the ftudv of jurisprudence, with a 

 view that he might be fitted for holding fome public employ- 

 ment ; but his father did not confine his education merely to 

 thofc branches of knowledge neceflary for that line. He was 

 inftru&ed in the fciences and the fine arts: and, being early 

 familiarifed with both, he applied to them with unabated 

 ardour, and made fuch a rapid progrefs as attracted the at- 

 tention of fome of the moil celebrated men of Germany, 

 among whom was Vofs, who lived in the fame village, and 

 was an intimate friend of his father. Young Efchen was 

 particularly noticed alfo by Count Stolberg, well known by 

 his translation of Plato's Dialogues and his Travels through 

 Switzerland and Italv. 



At the age of twenty, young Efchen quitted his father's 

 houfe, and repaired to the univerfity of Jena, where he ap- 

 plied chiefly to philofophy and jurifprudence; the former of 

 which he ftudied under Fichte, the difeiple and rival of the 

 celebrated Kant; and theJatter under Profeflbr Hufeland, a 

 m?.n as much diftinguifhed by his private virtues as by his 

 talents and learning. Natural hiftory and philofophy occu- 

 pied alfo fome part of his attention ; nor did he. neglect po- 

 etry, to which he had a fixong natural propenfity. He tranf- 

 lated feveral pieces from the Greek and Latin languages, 

 which were almoft as familiar to him as his own, and to 

 which he had added alraoit all thofe of Europe. He pub- 



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