Jacob Sternberger (german: Jakob Sternberger) was a grandson to Mayor of Kaaden
Jakob Marzel Sternberger
Jakob Marzel Sternberger (1750–1822) was the first mayor of the town of Kadaň after the municipal reform of Joseph II
Joseph II (German: Josef Benedikt Anton Michael Adam; English: ''Joseph Benedict Anthony Michael Adam''; 13 March 1741 ...
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,
Bohemia
Bohemia ( ; cs, Čechy ; ; hsb, Čěska; szl, Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohem ...
. He studied at the
Charles University
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in
Prague, where he was involved in the revolutionary movement spreading across the German states. Fleeing political persecution after
1848
1848 is historically famous for the wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more liberal governments, which broke out from Brazil to Hungary; although most failed in their immediate aims, they significantly altered the polit ...
, 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.
German-American Forty-Eighters
German Bohemian people
American people of German Bohemian descent
People from Kadaň
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
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