physician, b. Harpstedt, Hanover, Germany. He was educated at Bonn and Gottingen universities. He came to Milwaukee in 1843, where he practiced medicine until his death. In the early 1840's he was active in securing suffrage for Wisconsin's foreign born. He helped to organize Milwaukee's Schulverein and German-English Academy in 1851, first German Medical Society in 1853, Wisconsin Natural History Society in 1857, and was president of the latter (1857-1861). L. F. Frank, Med. Hist. of Milwaukee, 1834-1914 (Milwaukee [1915]); R. A. Koss, Milwaukee (Milwaukee, 1871); W. Hense-Jensen, Wis. Deutsch-Amerikaner (2 vols., Milwaukee, 1900--1902); J. G. Gregory, Hist. of Milwaukee (4 vols., Chicago, 1931); Milwaukee Sentinel, July 20, 1861; WPA field notes.Learn More
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