Jacob Struve

From a young age he had to work in the fields, but he also received lessons in Latin, German, English and in mathematics, which he liked most.

In 1780, through the assistance of one of his teachers, Christian Gottlob Heyne, Struve obtained a position of vice-principal in a Latin school in Hanover.

[3] His attitude to life could be expressed in a phrase from his letter to Friedrich:[5] A teneris adsuescere multum est.

Wir Struve können nicht ohne anhaltende Arbeit vergnügt leben, weil wir von frühester Jugend an uns überzeugt haben, daß sie die nützlichste und beste Würze des Menschenlebens ist.

(We, Struve, can not live happily without continuous work, because from the young age we learn that it is the most useful and best virtue of human life.)