Ingolstadt

August was a curiosity to me.

Already an old man when I met him, he was the manservant of Victor's father, Herr Frankenstein, who held considerable position and land in Geneva and was chairman of the Board of Governors for the university which Victor and I attended in Ingolstadt.

August attended to the family home, what we often joked as being the family castle, a palatial mansion of brick and stone, complete with parapet and gargoyles positioned on the shores of Lake Geneva, and was incredibly loyal to the family who, though he served them, had taken him in as one of their own.

I had become acquainted with August and the family Frankenstein just a few years earlier in the winter of 1814, when, on my eighteenth birthday, my father sent me to apprentice with young master Victor, just as my father had apprenticed for his father, Herr Frankenstein.

while this tremendous cannonade drove the bavarians from the opposite bank he caused to be erected a bridge over the river with all possible rapidity a thick smoke kept up by burning wood and wet straw concealed for some time the progress of the work from the enemy while the continued thunder of the cannon overpowered the noise of the axes he kept alive by his own example the courage of his troops and discharged more than sixty cannon with his own hand the cannonade was returned by the bavarians but with evil vivacity for two hours though with less effect as the swedish batteries swept the lower bank while their heights served as a breastwork to their own troops in vain therefore did the bavarians attempt to destroy these works the superior fire of the swedes threw them into disorder and the bridge was completed under their very eyes on this dreadful day till he did everything in his power to encourage his troops and no danger could drive him from the bank at length he found the death in which he sought a cannon-ball shattered his leg and altringer his brave companion in arms was soon after dangerously wounded in the head deprived of the animating presence of their two generals the bavarians gave way at last and maximilian in spite of his own judgment was driven to adopt a pusillanimous resolve Overcome by the persuasions of the dying Tilly, whose wanted firmness was overpowered by the near approach of death, he gave up his impregnable position for lost, and the discovery by the Swedes of a ford by which their cavalry were on the point of passing, accelerated his inglorious retreat.

The same night, before a single soldier of the enemy had crossed the Lech, he broke up his camp, without giving time for the king to harass him in his march, retreated in good order to Nuburg and Ingolstadt.

With astonishment did Gustavus Adolphus, who completed the passage of the river on the following day, behold the hostile camp abandoned, and the elector's flight surprised him still more when he saw the strength of the position he had quitted.

Had I been the Bavarian, said he, though a cannonball had carried away my beard and chin, never would I have abandoned a position like this, and laid open my territory to the enemies.

bavaria now lay exposed to the conqueror and for the first time the tide of war which had hitherto only beat against its frontier now flowed over its long-spaired and fertile fields Before, however, the king proceeded to the conquest of these provinces.

He delivered the town of Augsburg from the yoke of Bavaria, exacted an oath of allegiance from the citizens, and to secure its observance left a garrison in the town.

He then advanced by rapid marches against Ingolstadt in order by the capture of this important fortress, which the elector covered with a greater part of his army, to secure his conquests in Bavaria and obtain a firm footing on the Danube.

End of Part 2 Part 3 of The History of the Thirty Years' War, Volume 3 by Friedrich Schiller Translated by Reverend A. J. W. Morrison This Libervox recording is in the public domain.

In my boyhood, I had an eager desire to learn and was filled with a fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature.

When the time came, I enrolled at the university in Ingolstadt and was fortunate in attracting the attention of Professor Waldman, who chaired the Department of Surgery and ultimately became my mentor.

I graduated at the top of my class, my head filled with ideas, my heart filled with little.

In the evening, After our graduation ceremonies, I invited Professor Waldman and my dear friend Henry Clairvaux to dinner at my chateau.

The Durants offer a concise description of the origins of the Illuminati.

In 1776, Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, organized a secret society, which he called Perfectibilisten, but which later took on the old name of Illuminati.

Its ex-Jesuit founder, following the model of the Society of Jesus, divided its associates into grades of initiation and pledged them to obey their leaders in a campaign to unite all men capable of independent thought, make man a masterpiece of reason, and thus attain the highest perfection in the art of government.

Now, it's wrong, ladies and gentlemen, to believe that Adam Weishaupt was responsible for the formation of the Illuminati in 1776.

He was responsible for the formation of the Bavarian Illuminati, and it's notable that he was a Jesuit priest, a professor of canon law at Ingolstadt University.

Because the Jesuit order was founded, ladies and gentlemen, by Ignatius Loyola.

Long before Adam Weishaupt ever came along, long before he was born, long before he was dreamed of.

I entered the family business.

But including the final stage of my studies, I wrote my diploma thesis in Audi in Ingolstadt, by the way, in the Audi press shop.

And so that means that meanwhile, I'm almost, not exactly, but almost 40 years in our automotive industry.

Wow, that's impressive.

Chapter 3.

When I had attained the age of seventeen, my parents resolved that I should become a student at the University of Ingolstadt.

I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva, but my father thought it necessary for the completion of my education that I should be made acquainted with other customs than those of my native country.

My departure was therefore fixed at an early date, but before the day resolved upon could arrive, the first misfortune of my life occurred, an omen, as it were, of my future misery.

My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform.

We must continue our course with the rest, and learn to think ourselves fortunate whilst one remains whom the spoiler has not seized.

My departure for Ingolstadt, which had been deferred by these events, was now again determined upon.

I obtained from my father a respite of some weeks.