Capital Punishment Based On Professor Mittermaiers Todesstrafe

ld age such purity of soul, such a warm and feeling heart, that any hostile feelings to which the passion of parties may have given rise in the midst of his active career, have long since subsided. I will endeavour to draw a short sketch, of the literary and political life and activity of this distinguished man. K. J. A. Mittermaier was born on the 8th August, 1787, in Munich, where his father was an apothecary. His mother possessed a calm, clear, and acute intellect, and great activity : his father had extensive knowledge in natural history, a quick understanding, and a gentle, pure, almost enthusiastic mind. The son appears to have inherited the qualities of both his parents, but chiefly those of his father. It may be of some interest to mention here that his father's brother in-law was the well-known seaman Zimmermann, who repeatedly sailed round the world as Captain Cook's steersman. The uncle's highly coloured descriptions of distant lands nearly induced his nephew to turn sailor, and certainly aroused in him, at an early age, that constant inclination for travelling which he subsequently lost no opportunity of gratifying. Unfortunately, Mittermaier did not long enjoy the loving guidance of his father, who died at a comparatively early age. His mother married again; but the intercourse between the lively boy and the rather gloomy, severe stepfather was not very intimate. The boy was sent to the school of a clergyman, a hard, narrow-minded man, who, however, p... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.