The compulsion of fate is bitter.

In 1772 he publiChristoph Martin Wielandd Der goldene Spiegel oder die Könige van Scheschian a pedagogic work in the form of oriental stories; this attracted the attention of Anna Amalia Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and resulted in his appointment as tutor to her two sons the Duke Karl August and his brother Prince Constantin at Weimar. From the town school of Biberach he passed on at the age of twelve to the Kloster Berge gymnasium near Magdeburg. 1902).