Abstract
The following review is based on personal recollections and cannot claim historical accuracy and completeness. I shall tell you what has impressed me most, since I attended, in 1901, my first lecture at the University of Breslau, my home city. We were taught what is called today classical physics, which was at that time believed to be a satisfactory and almost complete description of the inorganic world. But even Maxwell’s theory of the electromagnetic field was, about 1900, not a part of the ordinary syllabus of a provincial German university, and I remember well the impression of bewilderment, admiration and hope which we received from the first lecture on this subject given to us by the then young and progressive lecturer Clemens Schaefer (still active at Cologne).
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