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ship of Ancient Languages in the University of Louisiana, at Baton Rouge, 

 and visited that place on a tour of inspection. Tbe position was held open 

 for him one year, when he finally declined it, preferring to remain here, al- 

 though his preference was for the chair of Ancient Languages. 



Dr. Fueling was married November 21st, 1868, to Miss Laura H. Aldrich, 

 whose care and devotion have smoothed his dying pillow, and ministered to 

 every want. 



In 1876 he visited his old world home on a brief tour, but returned heartily 

 in sympathy with American ways, and our systems of education, after having 

 had the opportunity of comparing the two systems with his matured judg- 

 ment. Indeei, he remarked to the writer ot this sketch that his views as to 

 the expediency of adopting the G-erman method in this country had undergone 

 a complete change — that while the G-erman system carried a few students 

 further, the American system carried the mass of students to a practical edu- 

 cation unknown to the G-erman system. The word '' university " not desig- 

 nating the same grade of institution here as in Germany, it took him some 

 time to adjust himself to the wants of the students that he here met, but dur- 

 ing the last years of his life he was thoroughly in sympathy with his work 

 and with the students under his charge. 



The published works of Dr. Feuling are few. Shortly after coming to Madi- 

 son he published an edition of the Foem% Admoniturium of Phocylides, pre- 

 facing the Greek text with au introduction written in fluent Latin. This was 

 dedicated to the American Philological Association, of which he was an 

 active member, and before which he read several papers. He was also a mem- 

 ber of the Wiscontiin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, and contributed 

 several philological papers to its transactions. He has left several works in 

 manuscript — " The Homeric Hymns," with notes; Montesquieu's " Consider- 

 ations," with notes and a glossary, intended as a French Reading Book, which 

 is nearly ready f )r the press; also " An Historical Outline of Germanic Ac- 

 cidence," which was nearly completed at his death. All these works show 

 on every page his profound and thorough scliolarship, and leave no room for 

 doubt that had he lived he would have gained a lasting reputation in his 

 chosen field of study. With him, teaching was not a drudgery; he felt proud 

 of his profession, and discharged his duty with a conscientious fidelity. 



As a man, he was genial, companionable and trustful. With an ardent 

 temperament, his likes and dislikes were strong, and sometimes strongly ex- 

 pressed, but withal, he was free from baseless prejudices. He was as prompt 

 to acknowledge a fault as to forgive a wrong. He had warm friends, and this 

 is one of the best tests of manhood. 



As a Christian, he kept the taith. He was brought up iu the Roman Catho- 

 lic Church, but on coming to this country he identified himself with the 

 Episcopal Church, of which he was a constant communicant until his death. 

 He died in Christian charity towards all, and let the living exercise the same 

 charity towards whatever faults in human fraility_he may have had. He died 

 in the Christian's hope of a blessed immortality. 



