Charles Follen letter to Dear sir, ca. 1830.

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Charles Follen letter to Dear sir, ca. 1830.

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Follen writes to Dear sir, 10 Dec., noting that he had given Dr. Beck tickets to a series of his lectures. Follen declares he has changed his mind about the policy, and requests that the tickets be sold instead of distributed.

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Follen, Charles, 1796-1840

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Charles Follen was a German-born educator, preacher, athlete, and reformer. His radical approach to reform in Germany made him unwelcome, and he fled to France, then Sweden, and finally America. During a checkered career at Harvard, he fomented a spirit of rebellion among students, taught wildly popular courses on German language and literature (the first such courses at Harvard), and incidentally introduced gymnastics to the school. After leaving Harvard, he was ordained as a Unitarian minister...