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The History of Brig-Wallis Preparatory School

Brig-Wallis Preparatory School for Boys has a history that may be of interest to some readers. The school exists largely due to the efforts and vision of one particular man who, for the time being, shall here go nameless (for reasons that the reader will surely understand). At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Order of Osiris had a particularly strong-willed member of German birth who happened to be a childhood friend and ardent admirer of German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte--who later happened to become one of the fathers of German nationalism and Romanticism. As boys, the two were schoolmates at the renowned Schulpforta, an all-male country boarding school near Naumburg in the German state of Upper Lusatia, in the Kingdom of Saxony, a school that still exists today--now known as the Landesschule Pforta.      From as early as 1790, Fichte had been expressing a growing call to German nationalism in his letters and writings. He had been inspired by the recent events