Ferdinand von Mueller

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Letter not found. The text given here is a translation from the Tanunda Deutsche Zeitung published in the South Australian advertiser (Adelaide), 18 October 1869, p. 2. It is introduced by 'The approaching departure of the Rev. Dr. Meucke from this colony is deeply regretted by his numerous friends, and particularly by the members of his congregation … About the lecture Dr. Muecke gave for the benefit of the Tanunda Institute, on A. von Humboldt, Dr. F. von Mueller writes, on 29th September:—'.

I owe you my sincerest thanks for the joy you have caused me by forwarding a reprint of your eloquent lecture on "A. von Humboldt."

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Mücke's lecture was at the Tanunda Hotel on 14 September 1869 ( South Australian advertiser , 25 September 1869, p. 6); text of lecture not found.

I have never seen a finer representation of the relation of Humboldt to the newer philosophy; nor a more attractive short description of his influence on all higher education, and on the retrospect of the different disciplines of human knowledge. Your lecture reminds me of those splendid necrologues in which my great, but now also deceased friend, Von Martius, celebrated at the Academy at Munich the deserts of our greatest men of science, and whose collection of all these lectures is one of the brightest jewels of the literature of the whole earth.

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Martius (1866).