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THE CASE OF JOHANN VALENTIN ANDREAS. 223
pastor of Herrenberg, his mother, Mary
Moseria. The
delicacy of his early years characterised his maturer life,
but he was of a shrewd and cheerful disposition. He re-
ceived the rudiments of his education from Michael Beum-
Subsequently he pursued his studies at Tubingen,
Buhle informs us that, " besides Greek and Latin (in which
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languages he was distinguished for the elegance of his style),
he made himself master of the French, Italian, and Spanish ;
was well versed in Mathematics, Natural and Civil History,
Geography, and Historical Genealogy, without at all neglecting
his professional study of divinity." 2 " I so divided my
time," he tells us, " that during the day I devoted myself
to instruction in the arts ; thereto I added long nocturnal
studies, passed in the reading of various authors, and car-
ried to such an extravagant extent that not only my eyesight
suffered, but I made myself subject to the horrors of sleep-
lessness, and weakened the strength of memory."
He travelled much within the limits of his own country,
visited France, Switzerland, Italy, including Venice, and
twice journeyed into Austria. He was married on the
second of August 1614, to Agnes Elizabeth, daughter of
Josua Griiminger. 3 He passed through various grades of
ecclesiastical dignity, and became chaplain to the court at
"
Here," says Buhle,
"
he met with so much
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thwarting and persecution, that, with his infirm constitu-
tion of body and dejection of mind from witnessing the
1 " Primam infantiam afflictissimam habui, ardeo est non nisi
bimus in pedes primus erigerer, quam etiam valetudinis tenuitatem
omni vita tolerari, ingenio interim sagaci et festive, ut propinquis
et amicis voluptati essem .... Literarum rudimenta a Michaele
Beumlero accessi viro " "
optimo." Vita ab ipso Coiiscripta, lib. i.
2 De Quincey, " Rosicrucians and Freemasons," c. iii.
3 See additional notes, No. 5,