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Charles Beck was born on August 19, 1798, at Heidelberg, in Baden, Germany. His father, a merchant, died when Charles was a boy, and his mother married Dr. De Wette, a well-known theologian, Biblical critic and interpreter, who was at that time professor at Heidelberg and later at Berlin. He was a gentle, kind, learned, and wise stepfather, and Charles had excellent advantages.
As a student in the University of Berlin Charles devoted himself chiefly to the classics, then he studied theology and was ordained at Heidelberg, July 7, 1822. He obtained the degree of Ph. D. at Tübingen in 1823.
Charles expected to enter the ministry, but was prevented by the political conditions of the time. In 1819 a young German fanatic, named Sand, had murdered the poet and dramatist Kotzebue as a traitor, spy, and mercenary tool of Russia. De Wette wrote a letter to the mother of Sand after her son's execution, and this was construed against him, as implying, in one passage, extenuation of the crime. De Wette was removed from his professorship and went with his family to Basel, where he was given a professorship in the university. Here Beck, after finishing his theological studies, was employed as docent in the university.
Meanwhile Dr. Follen, an older friend of Beck, became an object of political suspicion, was compelled to leave Germany, and went to Switzerland, where he taught first in a school at Chur, then at the university of Basel, until, in 1824, the government at Basel yielded to the pressure exerted by the Allied Sovereigns and exiled him. He went to America, and Beck, feeling that there was no hope for the friends of freedom in Germany, or even personal safety in Switzerland, went with him. They sailed from Havre November 5, 1824, and reached New York December 19. Beck soon became connected with the Round Hill School at Northampton, Massachussets (at that time under J. G. Cogswell), and then, in 1830, with two others, opened a school at Philipstown on the Hudson, opposite West Point.
In 1832 Beck was elected professor of Latin at Harvard College. After serving in that capacity for eighteen years with eminent success, he retired in 1850. As professor he was distinguished for his unvarying fidelity to his work, for the conscientious strictness and fulness of his instruction, and for his gentlemanly courtesy and dignity. He became a member of the American Oriental Society in 1843, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1845. In 1865 he was appointed by the governor and council of Massachusetts a trustee of the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-minded Youth. He was for two years a representative of Cambridge in the state legislature.
Beck was one of those who introduced into the United States the scholarship of Germany, which made the teaching of the classics more alive and worth while, and he must be included among those whose influence led the ambitious young American scholars of the two following generations to study in German universities. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, aged 67.
Charles Beck gained a success through his articles in American and foreign periodicals and his other published works which include: Ad Calpurnium Pisonem Poemation auctori vindicavit et adnotatione instruxit Carolus Beck (1835); an Introduction to the Metres of Horace (1835); a Latin Syntax, chiefly from the German of Zumpt (1838); a translation of Munk's treatise on metres (1844); editions of Cicero's Brutus (1837), Seneca's Medea (1834), and Seneca's Hercules Furens (1845); and a collation and description of the manuscripts of the Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter (1863); a monograph On the Consolidation of the Worcester and Western Railroads (1864). Charles Beck also contributed by opening a school at Philipstown on the Hudson, opposite West Point, and an outdoor gymnasium at Round Hill, Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Charles Beck was a member of the American Oriental Society; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Cambridge.
Beck was a man of large views, high public spirit, and consistent moral and religious principle. He had a deep sense of his civic and political duties, and was a loyal and patriotic citizen of his adopted country. As a scholar he was careful, conscientious, and independent, though he lacked something of the constructive imagination which the truly great scholar must possess.
Charles Beck married in 1827 Louisa A. Henshaw, of Northampton, Massachussets, who died in 1830; in the following year he married her sister, Mrs. Teresa H. Phillips, who died in 1863.
