Background
Solger, Reinhold Ernst Friedrich Karl was born on July 17, 1817 in Stethin, Prussia. Son of Friedrich Ludwig and Auguste (Jungnickel) Solger.
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Reinhold Ernst Friedrich Karl Solger
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Education
Attended U. Halle (Germany), 1837-1840. Doctor’s degree, U. Greifswald (Germany), 1842.
Career
Referendary, Potsdam, circa 1843. Went as tutor to Liverpool, England, circa 1844. Served as adjunct and interpreter to revolutionary leader General Mieroslawski during fighting at Baden, 1848.
Came to the United States, 1853, settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Writer and lecturer on German history, delivered series of lectures Lowell Institute, 1857-1859. Became American citizen, 1859.
Appointed assistant register United States Treasury for aid in attracting German vote to Republican Party, 1861-1864. Author: Erinnerung (eulogistic poem, won prize in New York), 1859.
Anton in Amerika (novel, given award by Bellestristisches Journal of New York), 1862.
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Married Adele Bemere, February 19, 1848, 4 children.
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January 11, 1866 (aged 48)