Friedrich August von Klinkowström

Then he decided to head for Rome, journeying first through Paris where the victorious Napoleon had amassed art treasures from many lands.

But the quickly formed friendship with Thorvaldsen, Rauch, Overbeck, and other artists, only lasted a year, as Klinkowström was obliged to look about for an assured position.

After the Treaty of Paris he returned to Vienna, where he found that during his absence his wife had been received into the Roman Catholic Church by Klemens Hofbauer.

But the difficulty was to find the right man, one qualified to undertake the work and carry it out within the provisions of the Austrian School Laws.

Owing to ill-health and increasing suffering, Klinkowström was obliged in 1834, after sixteen years of personal guidance, to give over the schools to other hands.