RODOLPHE See also:

• RODOLPHE TOPFFER (1799-1846)

TOPFFER (1799-1846)  , the inventor of pedestrianjourneys in See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Switzerland by schoolboys, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• GENEVA
• GENEVA (Fr. Geneve, Ger. Genf, Ital. Ginevra, Late Lat. Gebenna, though Genava in good Latin)
• GENEVA, LAKE OF

Geneva on the 31st of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1799 . His grandfather, a tailor, came about 176o from See also:

• SCHWEINFURT

Schweinfurt (See also:

• BAVARIA (Ger. Bayern)

Bavaria) to See also:

• SETTLE
• SETTLE, ELKANAH (1648–1724)

settle in Geneva, while his See also:

• FATHER

father, See also:

• ADAM
• ADAM (or ADAN) DE LE HALE (died c. 1288)
• ADAM, ALEXANDER (1741–1809)
• ADAM, JULIETTE (1836– )
• ADAM, LAMBERT SIGISBERT (1700-1759)
• ADAM, MELCHIOR (d. 1622)
• ADAM, PAUL (1862– )
• ADAM, ROBERT (1728—1792)
• ADAM, SIR FREDERICK (1781-1853)
• ADAM, WILLIAM (1751-1839)

Adam, was an artist . Rodolphe's See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• EDUCATION

education was rather desultory, as he intended to be an artist, like his father . But in 1819 his weak eyesight put an end to that intention, so he studied in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, intending to devote himself to the profession of schoolmaster . After passing some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time in a private school in Geneva (1822-1824), he founded (1824) one of his own, after his See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage . It was in 1823 that he made his first See also:

• FOOT

foot See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey in the See also:

• ALPS

Alps with his pupils, though this became his See also:

• REGULAR

regular practice only from 1832 onwards . These Voyages en zigzag were described annually (1832-1843) in a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of lithographed volumes, with sketches by the author—the first printed edition appeared at Paris in 1844, and a second series (Nouveaux voyages en zigzag) also at Paris in 1854 . Both series have since passed through many See also:

• EDITIONS

editions . In 1832 he was named See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of belles-lettres at the university of Geneva, and held that See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair till his See also:

• DEATH

death, on the 8th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1846 . As See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as 1834 he published an See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article in the Bibliotheque universelle of Geneva . It was followed by a number of tales, commencing with the Bibliotheque de mon oncle (1832), many of which were later collected (1841) into the well-known See also:

• VOLUME

volume which bears the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Nouvelles genevoises . He took some See also:

• PART

part (on the Conservative See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side) in See also:

• LOCAL

local politics, and was (1841-1843) editor of the Courrier de Geneve .

Among his other See also:

• WORKS

works are an edition of See also:

• DEMOSTHENES

Demosthenes (1824), and a volume of See also:

• ARTISTIC

artistic studies, the Reflexions et menus propos d'un peintre genevois (1848) . Lives by A . See also:

• BLONDEL, DAVID (1591-1655)
• BLONDEL, JACQUES FRANCOIS (1705-1774)

Blondel and the See also:

• ABBE (Serbo-Croatian Rai))

abbe Relave (both published at Paris, 1886), and shorter notices in E . See also:

• RAMBERT, EUGENE (1830-1886)

Rambert's Ecrivains nationaux (Geneva, 1874) ; and E . Javelle's Souvenirs d'un alpiniste (See also:

• LAUSANNE

Lausanne, 1886; Eng. trans., 1899, under the title of Alpine Memories), and several chapters in Ste Beuve's Causeries du lundi, Derniers portraits litteraires and Portraits contemporains . (W . A . B .