Produced by Mark C. Orton, La Monte H.P. Yarroll, Markus Brenner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.ne [Transcriber’s Note: This text uses utf-8 (unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the latin-1 version of the file instead. In the original book, German was printed in fraktur (“gothic”) type while English and other languages were in Roman type. For this e-text, fraktur is shown in {braces} (introduction, notes, glossary), and Roman in {{double braces}} (main story). Boldface type is shown by =signs=. Notes are identified by their original page number: 8-2, 8-3... Errors, marked E-2, E-3..., are listed at the end of the text.] Heath’s Modern Language Series {Eingeschneit} {Eine Studentengeschichte} {von} {Emil Frommel} _WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND VOCABULARY_ BY Dr. WILHELM BERNHARDT BOSTON, U.S.A. D.C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS 1908 Copyright, 1899 By Wilhelm Bernhardt INTRODUCTION The ranks of those illustrious men who a few decades ago, in war and peace, stood by the side of Emperor Wilhelm I.--of glorious memory--have gradually thinned. On the 9th of November, 1896, another of the few then surviving--Dr. Emil Frommel, Supreme Councillor of the Prussian Consistory, formerly chaplain to the Imperial Court and pastor of the “Garnisonkirche” in Berlin--closed his eyes forever. He was a man whose eminent gifts, both of mind and heart, had been thoroughly tested and fully appreciated not only by his personal friend, the old Emperor, but also by the latter’s son, the noble-hearted and much lamented Friedrich, and his grandson, Wilhelm II., the present shaper of the destiny of the Fatherland. Frommel was a minister of the gospel “by divine grace,” possessed of a deep and unaffected piety and love for mankind, an enrapturing pulpit-orator, a scholar of clear and keen intellect, a man endowed with the purest nobility of soul and intrepid courage, a writer for the masses, in whom the acme of moral gravity appeared felicitously blended with an always present and all refreshing humor, a fervent patriot and accomplished courtier, though far from every courtly flattery and obsequiousness.