Documents - Family and Gender

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11.	A Boy's Childhood in Cologne, c. 1810 (Retrospective Account) Writing without bourgeois prejudice and in a sympathetic Dickensian spirit, Ernst Weyden describes the life of the common folk in his native Cologne. He describes a sub-culture unaffected by Enlightenment....
12.	The Early Life of a Nuremberg Tailor’s Son in the Second Half of the 18th Century (Retrospective Account) Born in 1744 to a master tailor and his wife, Johann Christoph Händler drew intellectual inspiration from his early tutoring and schooling, but unwillingly followed in his father’s professional footsteps....
13.	The Son of a Non-Commissioned Prussian Officer Reflects on His Childhood and Youth in the Late 18th Century (Retrospective Account) Born in Berlin in 1786, Karl Friedrich von Klöden rose through the ranks to become director of the Berlin School of Trades in 1825. A product of the educational reform movement, the school aimed....
14.	Johanna Trosiener, the Daughter of a Danzig Merchant and Mother of Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and Writer Luise Adelaide Lavinia Schopenhauer, Reflects on her Childhood and Youth in the 1770s (Retrospective Account) These pages paint a lively picture of the prosperous and stable world of the merchant class in the urban republic of the great Baltic port city of Danzig, which enjoyed virtual self-government within....
15.	Law Code for the Grand Duchy of Baden (1809) Under Privy Councillor J.N.F. Brauer, the government of Grand Duke Carl Friedrich adapted the Napoleonic Code to Baden’s social and cultural conditions. Apart from the Rhineland and Westphalia, which....
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