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INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
The many friends and correspondents of the gifted author
of the present volume will be grieved to hear that he died
on 9th September 1906, having nearly completed his
sixty-second year. Born at Liibeck in 1844, he
afterwards studied law, theology, and literature at the
Universities of Leipzig, Tubingen, Göttingen, and Basel, after
which he resolved to devote himself entirely to literature
and historical research. At a later period he settled in
Edinburgh, assiduously carrying on his literary work and
partly supporting himself by teaching. He also travelled
a good deal in Scotland, England, and Ireland, winning
the hearts of many friends by his gentle, amiable, and
studious disposition, as well as by his outstanding musical
talents. His historical researches also took him repeatedly
to the Continent, and particularly to Northern Germany
and to Sweden. To the latter country he was enabled to
go, with the aid of a number of generous patrons and
friends, in the autumn of 1905 ; and it is a pathetic and
interesting fact that, at the age of sixty, he studied
Swedish for the express purpose of making the needful
historical researches for the present volume, and that he
lived and travelled for several months in Sweden on the
meagre pittance of about £60. His earlier historical
works had earned him a high reputation for zeal and
accuracy, but no pecuniary reward, in spite of which he
entered enthusiastically upon his still more arduous task
of breaking fresh ground in an entirely new field. Readers
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