On the Road—German Studies Major in Wolfenbüttel, Leipzig, and Cambridge

German Studies major Esei Murakishi had a busy summer. A Focus Europe summer research fellowship brought him to the famous libraries of Wolfenbüttel, Germany, and Cambridge, England, where he was working on German Baroque thought and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. The Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel has one of the world's premier collections of early modern European books and manuscripts, and it was once directed by the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and the writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. In Cambridge, of course, Esei was following in the footsteps of Austrian-born philosopher Wittgenstein himself. As the famous economist John Maynard Keynes remarked on Wittgenstein's return to Cambridge after several years of absence: "Well, God has arrived. I met him on the 5:15 train." With a second grant, Esei took part in an intensive German language course at the University of Leipzig.