This book focuses on "poor students", young men in eighteenth-century Germany who owed their studies to charity, who formed a substantial minority within the theology faculties, and who entered careers in the clergy, the academic schools, and the universities. Professor La Vopa shows how a cluster of familiar eighteenth-century ideas about grace, talent, and merit shaped a formative social experience central to the lives of many celebrated intellectuals as well as many of the elite.
| ISBN-13: | 9780521350419 |
| ISBN-10: | 0521350417 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date: | 1988-08-26 |
| Edition description: | First Edition |
| Pages: | 422 |
| Product dimensions: | Height: 9 Inches, Length: 6 Inches, Weight: 1.7416518698 Pounds, Width: 1.06 Inches |
| Author: | Anthony J. La Vopa |
| Language: | en |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
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