Jacob Sternberger (1822-1889) [1](German: Jakob Sternberger) was a grandson to Mayor of Kaaden Jakob Marzel Sternberger and an immigrant to the U.S. on whose correspondence is based one of the projects of the Max Kade Institute on German immigration in America.
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| Born | 1822 |
| Died | 1889 |
Jakob Sternberger came from a prominent family in Kaaden, Bohemia. He studied at the Charles University in Prague, where he was involved in the revolutionary movement spreading across the German states. Fleeing political persecution after the Revolutions of 1848, Jakob emigrated to America in 1850, journeyed across the country, and eventually settled in Wisconsin. The Max Kade Institute has in its collection a cache of about two hundred letters of Jakob Sternberger's correspondence. The scores of letters in the Sternberger file indicate that several of Jakob's friends and family eventually joined him in his new home. For example, his brother Kajetan sent his 8-year-old son Ferdinand, who was born out of wedlock, to join Jakob on the farm.
The Sternberger Collection, which contains quite a few letters from several generations, provides a wealth of historically, socially, linguistically, and even politically relevant information. The collection contains a great deal of information on German immigrants in the United States.
References
edit- ^ "LECTURE: "Jacob Sternberger: The Story of an Immigrant from German-Speaking Bohemia" with Antje Petty". Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies. 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
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