SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF 
DR. WISLIZENUS 
By Frederick A. Wislizenus, Esq. 
21, 1810, at Koenigsee, in Schwarz- 
burg-Rudolstadt, a German principal- 
ity of duodecimo proportions, which 
still exists as a sovereign, though hum- 
s ble member of the German Empire. 
His father was a pastor in the Evangelical State 
Church. Both parents died of the epidemics that 
followed in the train of the retreat from Moscow, 
leaving three children of tender years, of whom 
Adolph was the youngest. The mother’s brother, Dr. 
Hoffman, a young man just entering on his juristic 
career, thought it his duty to take charge of the 
orphans, in which view his bethrothed heartily con- 
curred. The couple never had children, save these 
three orphans, who became theirs in letter and spirit 
at the marriage. They cared for the children in their 
A DOLPH WISLIZENUS was born May 
