Alexander Jacob Schem
Alexander Jacob Schem (16 March 1826, in
Early life
He attended the
Immigrant
In the United States, he was a tutor for a time in the home of a publisher whose oldest daughter he married in 1853. That year, he began teaching in the Collegiate Institute at Mount Holly, New Jersey.[1] In 1854, he became professor of ancient and modern languages in Dickinson College, but he resigned in 1860 to devote himself to literature and journalism.
He was a writer for the
Works
Besides the Deutsch-amerikanisches Conversations-Lexicon, he was a contributor to other cyclopædias of statistical, geographical, and religious articles. He was one of the editors of the Methodist and of the Methodist Quarterly Review. He prepared, with George Richard Crooks, a Latin-English Dictionary (Philadelphia, 1857), and published several editions of Schem's Statistics of the World; the American Ecclesiastical Year-Book (New York, 1860); the Ecclesiastical Almanac (1868 and 1869); and, with Henry Kiddle, a Cyclopædia of Education (1877), which was followed by two annual supplements called the Year-Book of Education (1878 and 1879).
He also wrote a book on the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), The War in the East (1878).[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Zucker, Adolf Edward (1935). "Schem, Alexander Jacob". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
Sources
- Biography at chronicles.dickinson.edu
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