From the Freies Deutsches Hochstift1    10 November 1863

Wer soll Lehrling sein?

Jedermann!

Wer soll Geselle sein?

Wer was kann!

Wer soll Meister sein?

Wer was ersann!

(Goethe.)

 

Das Freie Deutsche Hochstift

für

Wissenschafften, Künste und allgemeine Bildung

in

Goethe's Vaterhause

zu

Frankfurt am Main,

gestiftet

in Namen der geistigen Einheit des Deutschen Volkes zur Jahrhundertfeier der Geburt

Schiller's

auf Grund seiner genehmigten Satzungen mit den Rechten einer Körpershaft bekleidet durch Beschluss hohen Rathes der Freien Stadt Frankfurt vom 30. des Weinmonates 1863

hat auf den Antrag seiner Ehrenmitglieder und Meister in offener Sitzung ernannt und erklärt zu seinem

Ehrenmitgliede und Meister

Dich

Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich Müller gen. Lechenault

in

Melbourne.

 

Durch diese Ernennung haben wir Dein Wirken und alle Deine Verdienste eintragen wollen an geheiligter Stätte in das

Buch der Ehren unseres Volkes,

dessen höchster Stolz und Ruhm besteht in Thaten des Geistes, in der Veredlung der Menschheit durch

Wissenschaften, durch Künste und allgemeine Bildung.

Gegeben im Namens der Verwaltung

Goethehause zu Frankfurt a. M.

den 10. Wintermonat, Nov. 1863

G. H. Otto Volger Dr. gen Senckenberg.

d. Z Obmann.

Dr Eduard Heyden,

d. Z Verwaltungsschreiber.

Th. Schideck

Schriftführer.

 
 
 

Who shall be an apprentice?

Everyone!

Who shall be a journeyman?

He who knows!

Who shall be master?

He who creates!

(Goethe)

 

The Free German Academy for Science, the Arts and general Culture in Goethe's parental home at Frankfurt on Main, founded in the name of the intellectual unity of the German people on the hundredth celebration of the birth of Schiller, invested with the rights of a corporation by the resolution of the high council of the Free City of Frankfurt of 30 October 1863 on the basis of its authorised statutes, has on the petition of its honorary members and masters in open session appointed and declared as its Honorary Member and Master You Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich Mueller named Lechanault in Melbourne.

By this appointment we have wished to enter your works and all your service at the sacred place in the book of honour of our people, whose greatest pride and glory exists in deeds of the mind, in the ennobling of mankind through science, the arts and general culture.2

In the name of the administration

Goethehouse at Frankfurt on the M.

10 Wintermonth, November 1863

G. H. Otto Volger Dr named Senckenberg

President at the time

Dr Eduard Heyden

Administrative clerk at the time

Th. Schideck

Secretary

1
An undated copy of this certificate is held at the Free German Academy, Frankfurt on the Main.
2
The archive at the Freies Deutsches Hochstift Frankfurter Goethemuseum, Frankfurt am Main, includes a one-page undated MS listing M's memberships and positions held that seems to be based on the list published on the title page of the first volume of his Fragmenta phytographiae australiae.It is not, however, identical to this. Various peculiarities and errors n the document suggest that it was not drawn up by M or under his supervision; it may have been prepared by a clerk in Frankfurt, most likely at the time M was elected to the Academy.

Please cite as “FVM-63-11-10a,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/63-11-10a