translate English to German: Swift was studying for his Masters when political troubles in Ireland surrounding the Glorious Revolution forced him to leave for England in 1688, where his mother helped him get a position as secretary and personal assistant of Sir William Temple at Moor Park. Temple was an English diplomat who, having arranged the Triple Alliance (1688), retired from public service to his country estate to tend his gardens and write his memoirs.
Jonathan wurde nach der Rückkehr nach Dublin von Verwandten aufgezogen.