My little darling is the sole alarm clock that rings ; away go the dreams the moment it sings. No more than a cry or a faint moan does it take – Oh God! – for an infant to make you awake
The Early Years of Johann Gabriel Seidl’s Family Life in Celje between 1829 and 1832
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Johann Gabriel Seidl, Celje, pre-March era, childhood historyAbstract
Johann Gabriel Seidl, Austrian poet, writer, historian and ethnographer was a teacher at the Celje grammar school from 1829 to 1840; he also resided in the town with his family. Between 1830 and 1832, he kept a diary dedicated to his firstborn son Karl. He described in great detail his and his wife’s experiences, their habits and concerns after the child’s birth, the parents’ care for the child and its development. The diary thus presents the intimate life of an educated citizen, who in our part of the world represented a more ideal role model than the reality for and the customs of the rest of the population.
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