Name Johann Tellkampf | Role Politician | |
Died February 15, 1876, Wroclaw, Poland |
Johann Ludwig Tellkampf (28 January 1808 – 15 February 1876) was a German scholar and politician who taught in Germany and the United States.
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Tellkampf was born 28 January 1808 in Bückeburg in the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe. He came to the United States in 1838, engaged in teaching, and in 1843–47 was professor of the German language and literature in Columbia. He then returned to Germany as professor in Breslau. In 1848 he was elected to the Frankfurt parliament, in 1849 to the Prussian Chamber of Deputies, in 1855 to the Herrenhaus, and in 1871 to the first German Reichstag. He died 15 February 1876 in Breslau.
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