Lincoln County, SD Biographies.....Petzel, Ernst A. E. 1867 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

    ERNST A. E. PETZEL, Ph. D., was born in Koenigsberg, Prussia, July 12, 1867.
As a child he was very fond of books, and at the early age of seven read the
works of Lessing, Goethe and Schiller. At the age of ten he came to America, and
two years later, after being confirmed in the German Lutheran church, he went to
the seminary at Addison, Ill., where he became interested in the science and art
of teaching through Prof. Krauss, a graduate of Leipzig university, and
determined to fit himself for this profession.

    At about seventeen years of age he entered the University of Watertown,
Wis., where he pursued a classical course of study. After graduating with honors
he went to Europe and entered the University of Berlin to pursue his favorite
studies of philosophy, philology and literature. While here, through the merit
of one of his written productions, "The Creation of the World According to
Homer," he was appointed honorary member of the Philosophical society of Berlin,
Germany. From Berlin he was appointed principal and to the professorship of
philosophy and literature at Detroit Female college. His vacations were spent in
attending a post-graduate course at Harvard university. In the summer o| 1895
the University of Illinois conferred upon him the degree of Ph. D. His leisure
time as student and teacher has been devoted to literary pursuits. He accepted a
call to Augustana college in the fall of 1894, as professor of German and
literature.


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MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.


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