GEORGE BAUR’S LIFE AND WRITINGS. 
WILLIAM MORTON WHEELER. 
GreorG HERMANN CarL Lupwic Baur was born in Weiss- 
wasser, Bohemia, Jan. 4, 1859, into a family noted for its 
learning. His father and three of his father’s brothers were 
professors in German universities. Among the latter was the 
theologian Gustav Baur, professor at Leipzig. George Baur’s 
father, Franz v. Baur, was 
professor of forestry and 
director of the -f Forst- 
wissenschaftliche Ver- 
suchsanstalt ’’ at Munich 
from 1878 to 1897, and 
rector of the university 
from 1895 to 1806. 
The year after George 
Baur’s birth Franz Baur, 
who had been chief for- 
ester (“ Oberforster”’) of 
Weisswasser, left Bohe- 
mia and after a short stay 
in Giessen occupied a 
lonely “ Forsthaus” be- 
tween Frankfurt and 
Darmstadt. George 
Baur’s earliest memories 
went back to this secluded dwelling in the forest of which 
his father was superintending forester. Here, too, the family 
did not tarry. In 1864 Prof. Franz Baur accepted the chair 
of forestry in the Academy of Hohenheim, near Stuttgart. 
Here he remained till he was called to Munich in 1878. It was 
in Hohenheim that George Baur passed the happiest years of 
his childhood. He was sent to school in the spring of 1865. 
According to his own statement, he learned with difficulty. 
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GEORGE BAUR. 
