ABSTRACT
The first serious consequence of the author's bronchial weakness was the decision that he should not go to school like his cousins Hans and Reinhard but should have private lessons at home. A schoolmaster of an elementary school, Herr Boohr, was engaged for this purpose, and the author still remember Herr's face, surrounded by a blond Teutonic beard, his friendly but penetrating look and his full resounding voice. There were several old and famous high schools in Breslau, with resounding names, like Magdaleneum and Elisabethanum, as they had sprung from monastery schools attached to the churches of St Magdalen and St Elisabeth. This removal was itself the consequence of his father's second marriage, about which the author now have to speak in so far as it concerned his own life and development. His father made several attempts to get a house or flat near the new institute, but as that suburb was not yet developed no suitable p.
