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The above are only a small portion of the Latin productions of his pen ; but he did not neglect to work as much as possible in his mission of regeneration upon the popular mind by numerous tracts in the vernacular language , of which a catalogue would be uninteresting , though the same comic strength ancl bitterness of irony pervade them . Andre * Avrote principally
for his cotemporaries ; but the most of his literary productions , like everything the fruit of independent thought ancl genius , are instructive and interesting for all time . The republications , therefore , of some of his Avorks have been favourably received . Herder published , in the periodical "Zerstreute Blatter" ( Stray Leaves ) , fifth collection , Andre *' s Parables and Proverbs , ancl
repeated them in his "Letters on the Study of Theology ; " and Andres ' s poetry was collected and published by C . G . Sontag , Leips . 1786 , Svo . As a patriot , our author interested himself in the history of his native country , and during his six years' early residence at his first benefice of Vaihingen he Avas sedulously employed in
collecting every particular of the genealogies and biographies of the Wurtemberg princes ; the history of the country , and everything relating to these ecclesiastical and scholastic annals ;
also to the special county histories , ancl to the topography of their toAvns , cloisters , and charities . He not only examined for this purpose numerous chartularies , but also the public archives ancl the registration muniments ; ancl he wrote for inquiries on such subjects above one thousand letters . It is , therefore , the more to be regretted that this excellent Avork should have
perished in the catastrophe by which the town of Kahv , of which he then held the cure , was burnt , in 1634 , when the ravages of friend ancl foe during the Thirty Years' War were at their height : in it the venerable preacher lost the AA'hole of his ivorldly goods , and thereby received from fate the lesson , as he himself expresses it" quanto honest * pauperitatis * ta
, prcep inter opes concepta usu ipso valerent , et qu * * quanimitatis satietas atque voluntas esset : "— " how much the maxims concerning honest poverty imagined in prosperity gain Avhen put in practice , ancl Avhat a fulness of equanimity , ancl what great delight fioAV from them . " His OAvn misfortunes did not blunt his mind against the
misfortunes of others . In the circle of his ministration he was the guardian genius and the comforter of the suffering : he Avas a practical helper , as Avell as a theoretical adviser ; in the times of dearth and famine , many thousand poor Avere fed and clothed by his exertions , and the toivn of Kalvv enjoys to the present
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Biographical Sketches
The above are only a small portion of the Latin productions of his pen ; but he did not neglect to work as much as possible in his mission of regeneration upon the popular mind by numerous tracts in the vernacular language , of which a catalogue would be uninteresting , though the same comic strength ancl bitterness of irony pervade them . Andre * Avrote principally
for his cotemporaries ; but the most of his literary productions , like everything the fruit of independent thought ancl genius , are instructive and interesting for all time . The republications , therefore , of some of his Avorks have been favourably received . Herder published , in the periodical "Zerstreute Blatter" ( Stray Leaves ) , fifth collection , Andre *' s Parables and Proverbs , ancl
repeated them in his "Letters on the Study of Theology ; " and Andres ' s poetry was collected and published by C . G . Sontag , Leips . 1786 , Svo . As a patriot , our author interested himself in the history of his native country , and during his six years' early residence at his first benefice of Vaihingen he Avas sedulously employed in
collecting every particular of the genealogies and biographies of the Wurtemberg princes ; the history of the country , and everything relating to these ecclesiastical and scholastic annals ;
also to the special county histories , ancl to the topography of their toAvns , cloisters , and charities . He not only examined for this purpose numerous chartularies , but also the public archives ancl the registration muniments ; ancl he wrote for inquiries on such subjects above one thousand letters . It is , therefore , the more to be regretted that this excellent Avork should have
perished in the catastrophe by which the town of Kahv , of which he then held the cure , was burnt , in 1634 , when the ravages of friend ancl foe during the Thirty Years' War were at their height : in it the venerable preacher lost the AA'hole of his ivorldly goods , and thereby received from fate the lesson , as he himself expresses it" quanto honest * pauperitatis * ta
, prcep inter opes concepta usu ipso valerent , et qu * * quanimitatis satietas atque voluntas esset : "— " how much the maxims concerning honest poverty imagined in prosperity gain Avhen put in practice , ancl Avhat a fulness of equanimity , ancl what great delight fioAV from them . " His OAvn misfortunes did not blunt his mind against the
misfortunes of others . In the circle of his ministration he was the guardian genius and the comforter of the suffering : he Avas a practical helper , as Avell as a theoretical adviser ; in the times of dearth and famine , many thousand poor Avere fed and clothed by his exertions , and the toivn of Kalvv enjoys to the present