• Figure 3. The Board of Merits (Meritentafel) of the Dessau Philanthropinum (1777). The names of the students are in the middle. On the bright, left-hand side the students received their nails for virtue and diligence; on the dark, right-hand side they received nails for misbehavior. Andreas Pečar and Frank Kreißler, eds., Der Fürst in seiner Stadt—Leopold Friedrich Franz und Dessau. Ausstellungskatalog (Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2017). Stadt Dessau-Roßlau, Stadtarchiv.

The Board of Merits (Meritentafel) of the Dessau Philanthropinum

From Spaces of Honor: Making German Civil Society, 1700-1914 by Heikki Lempa

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