Family
Bolzano was the son of two pious Catholics. His father, Bernard Pompeius Bolzano, was born in northern Italy and moved to Prague, where he married Maria Cecilia Maurer, the (German-speaking) daughter of a Prague merchant. Only two of their twelve children lived to adulthood.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.”
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