Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . me with private tutors; thenhe entered the gymnasium at Friedland inMecklenburg-Strelitz, and afterwards passedthrough the higher classes of the gymna-sium at Parchim. In 1831 he attended lectures on jurisprudence atthe University of Rostock, going the following year to the Univer-sity of Jena, where he became a member of the Burschenschaft Ger-mania. The government, alarmed by the revolutionary agitation of1830, was on the lookout for undue exhibitions of patriotism amongthe student body. The riot at Frankfort in 1833 served as a pr
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . me with private tutors; thenhe entered the gymnasium at Friedland inMecklenburg-Strelitz, and afterwards passedthrough the higher classes of the gymna-sium at Parchim. In 1831 he attended lectures on jurisprudence atthe University of Rostock, going the following year to the Univer-sity of Jena, where he became a member of the Burschenschaft Ger-mania. The government, alarmed by the revolutionary agitation of1830, was on the lookout for undue exhibitions of patriotism amongthe student body. The riot at Frankfort in 1833 served as a pretextfor making arrests. Reuter was seized, on no other evidence of guiltthan that of wearing the German colors, was tried and condemnedto death for high treason. This sentence was commuted by KingFrederick William III. to thirty years imprisonment. Reuter wastaken from one Prussian fortress to another; in 1838, through theintervention of the Grand-Duke of Mecklenburg, he was delivered overto the authorities of his native State. A two-years imprisonment in. Fritz Reuter I2ig6 FRITZ REUTER the fortress of Domitz followed. In 1840, Frederick William proclaimed an amnesty after his accession, Reuter was setfree. Severe as his experiences had been, they had ripened him andprepared him for his lifes work, though at that time-he was scarcelyaware of his gifts. He went to Heidelberg to resume his legal stud-ies; but the death of his father compelled his return to Stavenhagen,where he undertook the charge of the farm. During this period hegained that practical knowledge of agriculture and of the farmerslife which he has interwoven in his masterpiece, (My Apprenticeshipon the Farm.) In 1850 he-was obliged, however, to abandon farming:removing to Sreptow in Pomerania, he became a private tutor, andsoon afterwards married Luise Kunze, the daughter of a life at this time was full of drudgery; but he found occasion towrite a number of tales and anecdotes in prose and
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