Jacob Sternberger

Jacob Sternberger (german: Jakob Sternberger) 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 projects of the

Max Kade Institute Dr. h.c. Max Kade (13 October 1882, Steinbach near Schwäbisch Hall, Württemberg, Germany – 15 July 1967, Davos, Switzerland) was an emigrant from Germany to New York City who became successful in the pharmaceutical industry. Kade was committed ...

on German immigration in America. Jakob Sternberger came from a prominent family in Kaaden,

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. He studied at the

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, 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

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. 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 Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "protection", "peace" (PIE "to love, to make peace") or alternatively "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "co ...

, 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

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