316 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 



To these mental and moral characters there was added religious belief and 

 religious culture. He seemed to us to exemplify in an e ninent degree the 

 true attitude of faith and science. They appeared the right hand and the 

 left hand of his being; set over against each other, indeed, antagonizing 

 each other's action in a sense, yet both working together in mutual confi- 

 dence and love for the good of the whole being. 



His religious views never seemed to hamper his scientific conceptions, nor 

 his science circumscribe the domain of his faith. He never seemed to hope 

 or fear triat his crucible would analyze the human soul, but in quiet and 

 courageous trust he lived a true scientist and a true Christian. 



His scientific labors have been so interwoven with the history of this 

 Society that they do not need formal memorial here. We but repeat the 

 spontaneous judgment of those most intimately associated with his investi- 

 gations, as well as those who have listened to his productions, when we 

 characterize them in terms of high esteem and admiration. 



4 



JOHN BAPTIST FEULING, PH. R 



BY STEPHEN H. CARPENTER. LL. D. 

 Professor of Logn and Englieh LiieratDre in the University of Wisconsin. 



Dr. John Baptist Feuling, Professor of Modern Languages and Compar- 

 ative Philology in the University of Wisconsin, died at Fayette, Iowa, March 

 10, 1878, after a lingering illness of more than six months. 



Dr. Feuling was born in the classic city of Worms, G-ermany, February 13th, 

 1838. He attended the public school until his tenth year. In 1848 he entered 

 the Gymnasium, Irom which he graduated nine years after, in 1857, with a 

 first degree, and entered the University at Giessen to study Philology. His 

 studies at the University were interrupted by being called to serve in the 

 army, but after two months' service, he returned, and passed his public exami- 

 nation in 1860. While at the University he gave private instruction, and after 

 leaving, he accepted a position in the Institute of St. Gowishausen, on the 

 Rhine, as teacher of Latin and Greek. During 1861 he spent six months at 

 the Bibliothequelmperiale, at Paris, mainly in the study of Philology, and in 

 acquiring a conversational mastery of the French language. 



He came to this country in 1865, landing at Portland, Maine, April 14th. He 

 went directly to New York, where he remained some time. He then spent a 

 year at Toledo, Ohio, where he opened a French and German Academy. Not 

 succeeding in this enterprise, he came west, and was employed for a time at 

 Racine College in giving instruction in the classic languages, from which 

 place he was called by President Chadbourne to the chair of Modern Lan- 

 guages and Comparative Philology, at the University of Wisconsin, in the 

 spring of 1868 — which position he filled at the time of his death. Shortly 

 after his accession to his professorship here, he was invited to the Professor- 



