After Mazarin's return to Rome in 1632, Barberini included him in a circle of artists, painters, and musicians, before obtaining for him a mission as extraordinary nuncio (ambassador) to the French court in 1634.
His studies of human vision attracted the attention of the German poet J.W. von Goethe, who befriended the Bohemian student and may have been instrumental in obtaining for him the chair of physiology and pathology (1823 50) at the University of Breslau, Prussia.
In this year a devoted friend, Isaak von Sinclair, obtained for him the sinecure post of librarian to the landgrave Frederick V of Hesse-Homburg.
When Benjamin committed suicide, apparently in the mistaken belief that he could not leave Nazi-occupied France, he carried with him an American entry visa, which the Institute for Social Research had obtained for him.
One is a recruit, soon to face the cannons of the Entente and dreading it; the other is going only as far as Salzburg, where family influence has obtained for him a job with the railway.
He loses himself, as well; his protracted mourning and disorientation play out in the refuge his connections obtain for him: a temporary, year-by-year contract to conduct a vague seminar in history.
In 1465 he received the bishopric of Évreux; the king made him le premier du grant conseil and, in spite of Balue's dissolute life, obtained for him a cardinalate (1468).
Now, on his journey to Rome, he at last "begins to be a disciple," and his great fear is that his friends in Rome might obtain for him a pardon and so deprive him of his way to perfection.
All that the earnest intervention by the Bohemian nobles could obtain for him was three public hearings, at which he was allowed to defend himself and succeeded in refuting some of the charges against him.
He coached his son Robert, born in 1563, for the secretaryship, which he obtained for him in 1596; Robert had taken over its responsibilities after Walsingham's death in 1590.
After serving as governor of Massachusetts for a year (1636 37), he returned to England, where his father obtained for him an appointment as joint treasurer of the navy (1639).
