Background
Schem, Alexander Jacob was born on March 16, 1826 in Wiedenbruck, Westphalia, Germany. Son of Friedrich and Adolphine (von Felgenhauer) Schem.
Schem, Alexander Jacob was born on March 16, 1826 in Wiedenbruck, Westphalia, Germany. Son of Friedrich and Adolphine (von Felgenhauer) Schem.
He attended the Paderborn gymnasium 1839–1843, and then studied theology and philology at the Universities of Bonn and Tübingen.
1853. Ordained priest Roman Catholic Church, 1849. Left church, came to the United States, 1851. Teacher ancient and modern languages
Collegiate Institute, Mount Holly, New Jersey, 1853-1854.
Professor Hebrew and modern languages Dickinson College, 1854-1860.
Foreign news editor New York Tribune, 1860-1869. Became editor-in-chief Deutsch-amerikanishes Conversations-lexicon (published in 2 volumes
1869-1874), 1869; assistant superintendent public schools New York, 1874-1881.
Contributor numerous articles to New American Cyclopaedia (edited by C. South. Dana and George Ripley), 1858-1863, also to American Ecclesiastical Year-Book, 1860. Editorial contbr, to The Methodist and The Methodist Quarterly Review. Collaborator in preparing Tribune Almanac, National Almanac, American Yearbook and National Register.
Author: (with George R. Crooks) A New Latin-English School-Lexicon, 1858.
(with Henry Kiddle) The Cyclopaedia of Education, 1877. The War in the East, 1878.
The American Ecclesiastical and Educational Almanac, 1869. Latin-English Dictionary, 1857.
American Ecclesiastical Year-book, 1860.
Married Mission Gerhard.