clothmaker

Updated: January 1, 2026

Richter's grandfather had held worthily minor offices in the church, his father had followed in his churchly steps with especial leaning to music; his maternal grandfather was a well-to-do clothmaker in the near-by town of Hof, his mother a long-suffering housewife.

- The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 : Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes