"During his first year at Halle [1838], he [Winckelmann, age 21] was to give a further demonstration of initiative by walking all the way to Hamburg [~170 miles], where a former professor's library, that of the father-in-law of Lessing's friend Samuel Reimarus, was being auctioned off, and returning on foot with his purchases on his back."
-- Winckelmann, Wolfgang Leppmann, 1970, p. 32.
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