text:  As Gottlob although of a ruined and impoverished family was not otherwise than of noble birth the greatest difficulty of these times was surmounted; and the Prince Bishop by bestowing upon the young man a post of honour and rank about his person in which the gentle youth could still continue the pursuit of his glorious art and march on unhindered in his progress to that eminence which he finally attained smoothed the road to the Ober-Amtmann's consent