ABSTRACT
In 1827, the University of Halle celebrated fifty years since its former Rector and Chancellor, August Hermann Niemeyer, had been awarded his doctorate. Niemeyer's travel account of England. Niemeyer's professional interest lay in seeing how educational establishments, orphanages and theological institutions operated outside Germany; his private concern was with the suffering of child labourers and the reintegration into society of those in prison and other penitentiary institutions. Women, like children, were also subjects open to potential exploitation by society, a fact to which Niemeyer constantly returned. Niemeyer's account focused not only on the suffering of lesser individuals but also on the more famous. Niemeyer was less interested in according these queens a particularly British identity. Niemeyer was explicitly preoccupied with the experiences of compassion, pity, and identification not just in the realm of 'life' but also in 'art'.
