In 1801, during the turbulent period prior to the dissolution of the old German Empire, he began his career, at the instance of the Prince-Bishop (soon afterwards Prince Primate) Karl Theodor von Dalberg, in the capacity of "publisher to the princely episcopal court of Constance", at Meersburg on the Lake of Constance, the episcopal residence and seat of a seminary.
Johann Gottfried Herder | Herder | Nerf Herder | Johann Heinrich Bartholomäus Walter | Bartholomäus Aich |