Gottfried Freytag biographical sketch of Clamor Friedrich Hagedorn, 1872.

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Gottfried Freytag biographical sketch of Clamor Friedrich Hagedorn, 1872.

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Biographical sketch (4 p.) of Clamor Friedrich Hagedorn, written by Gottfried Freytag for the German American Archives of the German Society of Pennsylvania, at the request of Oswald Seidensticker, the head of the GSP Archive Committee. The piece is entitled: Zur Erinnerung an den zu Philadelphia verstorbenen königlichen General Consul Herrn Clamor Friedrich Hagedorn. Included is the cover letter from Freytag to Seidensticker, dated 6 February 1872. Freytag states in the letter that he knew Hagedorn only in his later years. Hagedorn was born in Bremen in 1793; he served as Consul in Philadelphia for Bavaria, as well as Hesse, from 1853 to 1865, and died in Philadelphia in 1868.

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German Society of Pennsylvania, Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library

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German Society of Pennsylvania, Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library

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Hagedorn, Clamor Friedrich, 1793-1868.

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Seidensticker, Oswald, 1825-1894

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Born in Göttingen, Germany, Seidensticker emigrated to Philadelphia in 1846. In 1867 he was named professor of German language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He was also a member of the American Philosophical Society and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. From the description of The first German immigration to America and the founding of Germantown : typescript, 1893. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155866628 ...

Freytag, Gottfried, b. 1810.

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Gottfried Freytag was born in Bremen in 1810. He emigrated to the United States in 1833, settling at first in Baltimore, and three years later in Philadelphia. He became a member of the German Society of Pennsylvania in 1837, and served as secretary from 1845 to 1855. He was a partner in an import business, Fred. Thorspecken & Co., which later became Oberteuffer & Freytag. Freytag returned to Bremen to live in 1871, and he died there. From the description of Gottfried Freytag...