Ohm had hoped for a teaching position in a university. The Minister of Education declared that, while his work as a teacher had been accomplished with careful industry and diligence and conscientious attention to duty, the ministry regretted that, in spite of thorough appreciation of him and admiration for his excellent work as a scientist, they could not find for him a position outside of the gymnasium. How utterly trivial the conventional expressions sound, now that we know that they brought about for the time being the interruption of one of the most brilliant scientific careers in Europe. Of course, the geese cannot be expected to appreciate the swans, and it was not the minister's fault, but that of some of Ohm's own colleagues. The next six years of his life, the precious years between 38 and 44, Ohm had to give up the idea of teaching in a university, and devote himself to some private tutoring in Berlin, with a stipend of about three hundred dollars a year, miserable enough, yet sufficient, as would appear, for Ohm's simple mode of life. This he owed to the kindness of Gen. Radowitz, who employed him to teach mathematics in a military school in Berlin. At the end of this time, when he was nearly 45 years of age, his unfortunate situation attracted the attention of King Ludwig I., of Bavaria, who offered him the chair of professor of physics at the Polytechnic School in Nuremberg, which had recently by royal rescript been raised to the status of a Royal Institute, with the same rank in educational circles as a lyceum for the study of humanities. Here Ohm's duties were shortly to be multiplied. He became the inspector of scientific instruction, after having occupied for some time the professorship of mathematics, and later became the rector of the Polytechnic School, a position which he held for some ten years, fulfilling its duties with the greatest conscientiousness and fidelity. Ohm continued his work at Nuremberg for more than fifteen years. During this time, he succeeded in making his mark in every one of the departments of physics. He is usually considered as owing his reputation as an experimental and mathematical scientist to his researches in electricity. As a matter of fact, every branch of physics was illuminated by his work, and perhaps nothing shows the original genius of the man better than the fact that everything which he took up revealed new scientific aspects in his hands. The only wonder is that he should have remained so long in a subordinate position in the educational world at Nuremberg, and received his appointment as university professor of physics at Munich only in 1849.