Biographical sketch of Hermann Bokum : typescript.

Weimar, Germany?, before 1911.

3 items

English

Gift of Mrs. Francis Clarke (Hermann Bokum’s daughter), 1911.

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Hermann Bokum (1807-1878), German Reformed minister. Bokum immigrated to the United States from Prussia in 1826 and taught German and French at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and Harvard University. In 1842, he was licensed to preach and was ordained a pastor in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He later taught in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Knoxville, Tennessee. Bokum returned to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1873 and engaged in general missionary work until his death in 1878.

Brief typescript biography, unsigned, created by an unidentified individual before 1911 of Hermann Bokum. Biography is accompanied by reproductions of two photographic portraits of Bokum (both taken by Frederick Gutekunst).

March 10, 2022

Biographical Sketch of Hermann Bokum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Biographical Sketch of Hermann Bokum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Biographies (literary works)