Funeral Oration for the Obsequies of Karl von Hund

prudence, and a timely digested visit to the church; he had insulted some favorites of the Chief Margrave, and they made the matter with the Saint quite colorful, so that it soon reached its end at Anhalt without what he had hoped for in his beginning. After the completion of this mission and his return to Leipzig, he was faced with a life of provincial and [illegible] reproaches, which he did not believe he had earned, but which nonetheless stood uncomfortably for him. Thinking of the true core of the acts, as the governance testified, he had not always been followed, and this had given rise to various impolitenesses among the brothers of Anhalt, which moved him to withdraw entirely from the business, just as he later did, living on his estate Thora between Leipzig and [illegible].

Now I leave the a Houtheone? and ask you to return with me to the Grait, as the Grait was preparing such an extraordinary duty.
Reverend and honored Sir, Master, certainly, as with my teaching, you can easily imagine the greatest satisfaction that brings forth into the soul of humanity. His lively, sensitive heart was certainly carried away by this good progress and prompted him to a step which must be preserved for the memory of our descendants as the greatest proof of his upright and noble way of thinking, and which I, as an eyewitness, am best able to tell you.

Reverend, and because the founder of an Order—he was so careful under eternal custody to cause a statue, which did not correspond to his dignity but rather to his expectation, alive, before which he did not wish to stand as creator, but as the mere root—and believed that nothing would be more useful to maintain such a St.? than if the successor received the possessors. He offered

himself, therefore, to cede his estates, which were worth at least 250,000 Thalers and upon which no more than 40,000 Thalers in debts were attached (and which had been made by his ancestors), to the Order. He would see to the economy and management during his lifetime and, besides free housing and the use of the hunt, have 8,000 Thalers paid to him annually. And so that he could dispose of his estates completely freely, he paid out 12,000 Thalers in cash to his nearest relatives through me because of a fidei Commiss entailed estate/trust, and received from them a renunciation of his entire fortune. As much as this action must be admired for eternity, it had to draw horror at that time upon the fellow brothers, who could not decide to accept this offer, which was important in all respects, and which would have undoubtedly shown the best way for them how estates could be possessed by a community in Upper Lusatia. The reason, I hope, that—as I already noted above regarding the economic plan—one wanted to withdraw the funds into the Provincial Treasury, contributed very much to this mistrust and caused nothing to come of these two institutions before the Chief. However, there remained with our Reverend the wish to at least preserve a considerable part of his estates for the Chief, and for this reason he alone purchased the old commandery of Kittlitz for 42,000 Thalers and, immediately after this purchase, along with Heiligenwerth, [attempted] to bequeath the estates with appurtenances to the Order via Donationem inter vivos gift between the living. He had two at the end of his life, as I can prove through documents, [and] had bequeathed his remaining estates to the Chief, but this, too, did not come to pass; he tried