"Such an appointment at so early an age has to my knowledge only once been repeated in this century, viz., in the case of Friederich Nietzsche, who is considered the profoundest philosophical thinker of modern Germany".
He learned English in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he gave lessons on the pianoforte, and was for a short time professor of German in Lafayette College.
[2] He was then chosen as principal of a classical school that had been established by the authorities of the German Reformed Church at York, Pennsylvania.
A few months later, he was ordained to the ministry and appointed professor of biblical literature in the theological seminary at York, while retaining charge of the academy, which in 1835 moved to Mercersburg.
[4] Learned in German philosophy and theology, especially Hegelian thought, Rauch's particular contribution was the writing of his book Psychology: Or, A View of the Human Soul; Including Anthropology.