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

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 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) 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 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.

End of Article: TOPFFER, RODOLPHE (1799-1846)

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