Jacob Sternberger

Jacob Sternberger

Jacob Sternberger (in German Jakob) was a grandson to Mayor of Kaaden Jakob Marzel Sternberger and an immigrant to the U.S.A. on whose correspondence is based one of the project of Max Kade Institute on German immigration in America. 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 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 Sternbergers correspondence. The scores of letters in the Sternberger file indicate that several of Jakobs friends and family eventually joined him in his new home (e.g. his brother Kajetan sent his eight-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.


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