The teaching staff of 1885
One of the teachers was called Carl Grob. (Back, second from the right? Or first from the left?)
Some students adored him, while for others he was a bogeyman:
To the student Jacob Burckhardt, who later became a diplomat and historian, his “gaunt figure, shrouded in a faded, stained frock coat” and his “deathly pale face, marked by furious asceticism, containing small, piercing eyes” were so terrifying that they haunted his dreams.