10 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF 
his connexion with the Nazareth institution, young 
Schweinit/z was appointed to participate in the duties of 
instruction, by taking charge of some of the junior 
classes in that seminary. 
In 1798 his father was called to Germany, whither he 
was attended by his family, and where the subject of 
this memoir, then a youth of eighteen, was in the same 
year established as a student in the theological institu¬ 
tion at Niesky in upper Lusatia. Here, enjoying an in¬ 
tercourse with young men of decided and acknowledged 
talent, and entering on studies which excited a generous 
emulation, his faculties were roused to redoubled en¬ 
ergy, and his application became proportionally intense. 
The late excellent J. B. de Albertini, then one of the 
professors in that institution, exercised a powerful in¬ 
fluence on the mind of Mr. Schweinitz, and to his clear¬ 
ness and simplicity of views, his scientific and truly 
philosophical ideas, was the subject of our remarks in¬ 
debted for much of that justness of thought and firmness 
of principle, which carried him with success through the 
active duties of life. The mutual esteem thus formed 
between the pupil and his teacher was afterwards, by 
similarity of pursuits and predilections, matured into 
the closest intimacy. While prosecuting his studies in 
this place, Mr. Schweinitz enjoyed, by means of his 
extensive connexions, an opportunity of mingling much 
in society, of which his cheerful and sprightly conver¬ 
sation rendered him the common centre of attraction. 
But neither in this situation, nor in his subsequent 
foreign journies, did his feelings ever swerve from an 
