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Excerpt from The American Journal of Education, 1857, Vol. 3 J onu Hanar Wrcnaau, whose name will ever be associated with one Of the most interesting educational and reformatory movements of the age, as founder and superintendent Of the rough house, (rauhe Hana) near Hamburg, was born in that city on the 2lst of April, His father was a notary and sworn translator, and gave his son the advantages Of the best education which Hamburg afl'orded. He attended the Johanneum and the academic gymnasium Of his native city, and afterward, till 1830, pursued a course Of the ological study at Gottingen and Berlin. Soon after passing his ex amination in theology at Hamburg, he went practically to work, via iting the poor and the needy in the corners and the streets of the city, and undertaking the direction Of a free Sunday school for poor children, in which he soon assembled four or five hundred scholars and about forty volunteer teachers. Wichern declined the proposi tions made him at this time to enter upon the duties Of a clergyman, as his thoughts were already occupied in planning such an institution as he opened near Hamburg, in the Rough House, at Michelmas, 1838. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.