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Title: The life of Francis Daniel Pastorius, the founder of Germantown, illustrated with ninety photographic reproductions
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Learned, Marion Dexter, 1857-1917 Pennypacker, Samuel W. (Samuel Whitaker), 1843-1916. cn
Subjects: Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1716 Pastorius family
Publisher: Philadelphia, W. J. Campbell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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er) RudolphGraf, J. U. D., for France, returning April 26, 1658, to Som-merhausen. On the 27th of October, 1659, he went with oneserv^ant to Italy, where he learned the Italian language andsaw with his own eyes des Pabstums Greuelwesen. at Rome.^^After his return from Italy, in 1660, he collected a lar^e libraryand assumed the rule of his domains. In 1663 he marriedFr, Maria Juliana geb. Grafin von Hohenloh-Langenburg, widowof Johann Wilhelm of Limpurg-Schmidefeld. Count Franzruled twelve years and died at the early age of thirt>-six. No-vember 16, 1673. Pastorius has left us a touching tribute to Near Niirnberg. Cf. Georg Andien Universitdt A Cf. Der Limpurgische Ehrcnsaal, I.e. *Cf. Georg Andreas Wills, Gcschichtc und Beschreibiing der Kurnbcr-gischen Universitdt Altdorf. Altdorf, 1795, P- 244. w:3-o .■T *•;:: :>:;ris ■■^r. •■■■ ^f-yi ;;;i!-j ■- , Hi Xi-.ij-^i -inirf j)^w r/ .?rdi ,0i . i;- ■•- owv. vri-.ii.i >;/; ?^5 ....,■
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* %.. - .■■•^r^-o-j.- ^*- ,. t ... \ The Founder of GermantOwn 33 Count Georg Friedrich, both in German and Latin verses.The first four of the German verses give a portrait of the countspersonal appearance: . . v .,, ^ . ,....-,. Ob ich zwar uon Gestalt was scharff bin anzusehen So in Soldaten Stand so pfleget herzugehen Bin ich doch im Gemiith der Demuth zugethan Vnd hat bey mir Gehor, so Klein: als Grosser Mann. The Latin verses bespeak Pastorius own loss in the death ofthe Count, Georg Friedrich: O quantus mihi Fautor obit! quantusque Patronus!_ji _ Protector Patriae dum Fridericus obit O mea pars animse, meus Vltor, et Altor opimusDum mea mens super est, Te super astra feret. Also for the young Count Franz, Pastorius had a like affec-tion, as the following verses will show: Quantum inimica Patris Fridridi Fata doloremMoestitiamque animo contribuere meo Tantam Isetitiam de Te Francisce recepi Qui meus et Patriae factus es ipse Parens Intrepidus Patriae Patrem tunc sicce preca

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