In the Kaiser's Capital

Dickie, James Francis

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Author:: Dickie, James Francis

Title:: In the Kaiser's Capital

Publication:: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912

Language:: English

Digitization:: Berlin: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, 2024

Scope:: 315 Seiten

Note:: "History of the American Church in Berlin" im Anhang

Keywords:: Berlin ; Geschichte 1871-1918 ; Kultur ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

Berlin:: B 184 Kulturgeschichte: 1800 -1918

DDC Group:: 900 Geschichte

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:109-1-15493784

Collection:: History,Cultural History

Location:: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin

Shelfmark:: B 184/132

Copyright:: Public Domain

Accessibility:: Free Access

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Title:: Chapter XIII. Otto Pfleiderer

CHAPTER XIII OTTO PFLEIDERER My first remembrance of Dr. Otto Pfleiderer was in 1894, when he was rector of the Berlin Univer- sity. He was then in the very prime and flower of his manhood. Tall and straight as a pine tree, he had a commanding presence. Well do I remember how he looked in his robes of purple velvet, with the golden chain and medallion, the insignia of his office, and how chagrined I felt afterwards when I learned that in speaking to him I should have called him Your Magnificence, whereas I only said, * Most learned Professor.” I was greatly struck by the profound bow he gave to the Prussian Minister of Education, Dr. Bosse, and equally so by the obeisance the minister made to His Magnificence. It was in- deed a lesson in personal reverence which, above all lessons, we Americans, who speak of our Presidents as Teddy and Big Bill Taft, should lay to heart. A little comedy unfortunately mingled with the greet- ing: each of the two bowed so low that the crowns of their heads struck together with an audible crash, and as the Scotch say, “they crunted each other's crowns.” Thus it was but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, and a titter went around the assem- bly. The suppressed laughter excited the ire of an old staid theologian, who said to me later, “ Nothing 148

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