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SKETCH OF I)K SCHVVEINITZ. 
one of the rooms of the school a J^ichen, whose name and characters 
were commented upon ; and from tliis time forward he was a most en¬ 
thusiastic student of the vegetable kingdom. One of the teachers at 
Nazareth gave him instruction in botany, and while he was a student at 
the place, he prepared A Partial Flora of Nazareth, which is still among 
his unpublislied manuscripts. He made such progress in his studies, and 
his deportment also was such as to secure his appointment as instructor 
to some of the classes while he was yet a student in the institution. In 
1798, his father was called to Germany. Ilis family accompanied him; 
and Schweinitz was placed in the theological institution at Niesky, in 
upper Lusatia. He was associated with young men of talent and energy, 
and his activities were here redoubled. J. H. d’Albertini was professor 
in the institution,—a man of great learning and decision of character. 
To him Schweinitz was drawn by strong sympathy, and their mutual 
esteem afterward developed into the closest intimacy. After completing 
liis theological studies, he engaged in teaching in the Academy at Niesky. 
He was all this time not only a diligent student of fungi, but “ scarcely 
any topic in the wide field of science escaped his notice, and especially 
did the constitution and management of the affairs of his social and 
religious fraternity call forth from his pen many able and spirited 
articles.” So many interesting and new genera and species of fungi had 
by this time been found by himself and Albertini that in 1805 a volume 
of about 400 pages was published by them conjointly, bearing the fol¬ 
lowing title : 
CONSPFXTUS FUNGOKUM IN LuSATIvF: SUPEIIIOKIS AGRO NiESKIENSI 
CRESCENTIUM E 3IETHODO PeRSOONIANA. CUM TABULIS XII, 
.ENEIS riCTIS, SPECIES NOVA XCIII SISTENDIBUS. AUCTORIBIJS 
J. B. DE Albertini, L. D. I)e Schweinitz, Leipsi.e, 1805. 
Schweinitz engaged in preaching, before he left Niesky, and in 1807 
he was called to similar work in the Moravian settlement at Gnadenberg, 
in Silesia. The following year he was called to Gnadau, in Saxony, and 
remained there till 1812. At this time he was appointed general agent 
of his church in the United States. He married before leaving, and with 
Ids wife was compelled, on account of Napoleon’s operations, to take a 
route through Denmark and Sweden, in order to embark for this country. 
This was advantageous to him, on account of extending his acquain¬ 
tanceship with men of learning. At Kiel, in Holstein, he became known 
to many professors of the University; and that institution bestowed 
upon him the same year the honorary title of Doctor of Philosophy. It 
was a perilous voyage to make at that time, for the United States had 
declared war against Great Britain. Besides, they encountered terrible 
.storms, and their vessel was dismasted. They finally reached the sliore 
in safety ; and he began his work according to appointment, at Salem, 
N. ('. In the meantime, ^‘he found time to prosecute the study of bot¬ 
any in a dominion, scientifically .speaking, all his own.” The results of 
his work on the fungi were communicated to the world through the 
