Show dr ann and his work the 1 he nineteenth century is pre re enn emi lie itu an ago of lot ralf bolt made meu 1 ant at no DO mm man of tile agu age hall led bail a more mora eventful eventt nl career or coil oil tended loaded against grouter cled than the of 0 troy 1 roy aud ami My macen cellie L ito fuai born bom jau 6 hii 1422 H i i in lu a little 18 lar mitu rinau town lu in tile li mid of it A prot irot estina eler clergyman gyman in ili lim hid early yours hohet heli eird rd many it anoll inn 11 logon 1 of tuut inear trinel valtI miller 64 ian ill 1 them tales daiva a turn to inn his whole I 1 life di re ilia other father nit 1 to in celato to him ilie grout deela of homeric lonie rii herook and side aldo told hini of 0 tile excavations then being wad nude a tit lit aud and pompeii both I 1 olli agreed tat hit tile lad II dlou d one day ey troy this ling purpose formed when wild less leaa than eight delra of age was never lost eight of for u ilay day hel lorn I 1 id u lio life iio an completely vonRo ora tel to 0 one no lilea idea and u d seldom ii n it grant purpose so BO co completely in lately realized zeil H lather father ili laira in a little liun latin anil and each other education sa as he liml hall obtained ut the aal aai I 1 ol of now new at al together he spent three years in school being olleta by alia to boverly lov orty ot of his father athor to beloma e come tit gr grocers H apprentice apprent lna ive let at the age of fourteen our if le soon lift title unil and after various addon tures tares among them being a shipwreck secure reil a sit natio 11 in it mercantile house lit at amsterdam ilia work hero wall waa ill goly mechanic alund unil for the lint first t alma me a inca binca leaving school liu had leisure for baudy ila ho first le leir trued neil to write legibly and thou then applied himself to tile study of 1110 landern dern languages langu agoa spending halt of ahli till miserable baldry of franca afu a year tor his las nona bona and living on oil rya moil mo il porridge for breakfast and a annor that never cost coat more than two pence ity by ino redi blo diligence lie he wast ered english in in half a year imd aud iu in another six months french after this thi a he learned to write and I 1 peak fluently dutch ital ilia a and a I 1 guoBa in six aix weeks each macli soon boon otter altor this he ba gained a b loftur 0 ater situation Bit nution where ho he received two thousand francs franca and at once began to learn russians which lie he thought be useful in his basi neca in six weeks ho he wrote hid bill first 1 letter wit and was wan soon boon able to converse lineally with russian merchants mer chanta in hla his employers sent him to st at petersburg their main busi busineau neou wad the alle s lie of indigo aad lie he was wa so ao successful that he soon boon went into bunt nos for himself though still remaining agent tor for the amsterdam house bongo milking making a journey to california Califor nh in the spring 0 ot I 1 1850 to find his hi brother lie ha wall WB a resident of the state when it was admitted to the thoUn union iou find and so go bodame a 16 citizen of the united stites st integ an all honor which he be still esteems one of the greatest which lina has over ever befallen be tillon him in 1852 he WM was again in russia and had a BO 0 far prospered proa pored in business as 03 to lish liah a branch louse at moscow lo in 1851 he wm worth over and came near losing aall it t all la in a groat great tire fire at memel but as he ha was the only mer chant whose goods escaped hii profits were great and la be doubled his bis capital iu fit a single year and that too although the crimean war was rabing in 1851 1850 ho he began to study greek learning len the modern greek first I 1 which acon occupied P at him six six weeks he ha then than devoted Is voted two years ars to tile aoudy of classical greek r reading a ding nearly till all authors aud and 1 study I d Y ing gitig homer with tile livoli liveliest cat enthusiasm dr Is ii a firm larm believer in his methods of linguistic study and holds that all pupils ought to be taught in a similar manner to io which it u a reply to may aay all pupils are not mamus the number of young men who can learn to read and arito any arly foreign by any method III ia air six weeks is is to put it mildly not in 1858 dr jr Hoh liemann had boil money I 1 enough bud aud retired from business bu bli ainess gines ile he spent two years traveling in in europe Fjar ope F 1 agypt and syria learning arabio arabia as on an amusement moan meanwhile while but was mas recalled to st bt petersburg by some legal troubles connected with the winding up of his bis business buei noaa finding that ho nine must I 1 be ba detained several years he bo w went ent into business bua inoes again on a larger eclo le than ever lie dealt in in ludig indigo a co cotton aton and teu tea and at the end of 1861 retired for good as he ha says in possession ion of u u fortune such as my MT ambition bad never ventured to aspire to after mp spending ending years in in travel and 1 abo study ot of he was ready in IQ 1868 to begin what he hall had all along regarded as the real work ot of his life |