Geniuses in Their Youth

When Alexander of Macedon began his march upon the East, and led his victorious armies in the field, he was 16 years old.

At the age of fifteen, the French poet Victor Hugo presented his first poem to the literary academy and won a prize for it.

The musician Mozart was playing at the court of Berlin when he was seventeen.

When Joan of Arc led her army to liberate France, she had not yet reached eighteen.

At twenty, Beethoven began to compose his immortal melodies.

When Schiller wrote his drama "Die Räuber," he was 22 years old.

And Newton had made known his scientific discoveries, and had already become one of the great men of science, while still in his twenty-fourth year.