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• i household» When Adcdph was sloven years old [ in 1900) hi? baby j • ' : brother, Edmund, dlad. Again Ire caa imagine thnt Adolph renped an additional her.vent of ftffaction) and again because the apple of his motFia^fl eye, • Thia is certainly fin extraordinary aeries of events which nuat have left their mnrk on Adolph's iftn&ture "pe.]pflc-[ifllity* • What probably went on in his Bind during thei>e ye are we ahull con- • - J *m- 1 \ sida? later en* It is sufficient at the moment to point out the extraordinary ae'iUBdta of tt/eiits and the p>ob&bly effects they bad on the membere of the family And their relations with each other. When Adolph -nas six years old he WAS sent off to 3ch.ooX* Th« firflt school use A very suall Tolkacbule where three gnuiep met in the swe room and were taught fcy the s.-une teacher. Inj apit of * • • • tJia fact that he had to change schools several times tn the course • of the next few yearn, due to the fact that his father kept buying BJUL selling hifl propert/ and soring fros one pluoe to anothert be So ems tc hate done quite well In his studies. When he mis eight • years old he attended a Benedict Monastery in Lcuabapk. He wn£ vary much intrigufld with all this - i t gAve hia his first powerful ln- pression of human nchisTejnent* At that time hi a anbiUott wap to be- come an abbot* "Bat things did not work out very J.^oll* He wna dis- missed frooti the EDonafltery because he w&$ caught daokin^ in the gar- dans. Hia last year in VoUkfichule .w&.fl in Leondlng where he received high Jterke in a l l his subject a with the occasional exception of dinging, drawing and physical exerciaae, r ID 1900, the y^HT his brother fidaund disci, he entered tha Reolachule in LITIZ* TO the utter aimxeiaent of a l l who knew him his REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES