Background
Klemm, Louis Richard was born on December 8, 1845 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Son of Carl August and Catherine (Schlippert) Klemm.
Klemm, Louis Richard was born on December 8, 1845 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Son of Carl August and Catherine (Schlippert) Klemm.
Educated Düsseldorf; came to the United States, 1866. Graduate Normal School. (honorary Doctor of Philosophy, De Pauw University, 1883).
Assistant superintendent schools, Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1880. Principal German Normal School, Cincinnati, 1880-1884. Superintendent schools, Hamilton, O., 1884-1887.
Principal technical school, Cincinnati, 1888-1889.
Government specialist in foreign education, 1889-1910. President Society for Savings, Washington, since 1910.
Author. Text-books for the Study of German, 1876.
History of German Literature, 1878. Poetry in Home and School, 1879.
German by Practice, 1883. European Schools, 1888.
Chips from a Teacher’s Workshop, 1887.
Higher Education of Women, 1891. Public Education in Germany and the United States, 1911. Home: Washington, Distric.