As a charter member of the New York State Historical Association, he was one of its stanchest supporters.
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In Leipzig he became intimate with Christian Gottfried K�rner, father of the poet Schiller, who was one of K�rner's stanchest friends.
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He studied Frederick the Wise, the elector of Ernestine Saxony, remained the stanchest defender of Roman Catholicism among the princes of northern Germany.