Johann Friedrich Leonhard Tafel (1800 - 1880)

Born 6 Feb 1800 in Sulzbach am Kocher, Gaildorf, Württemberg, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Ancestors

Husband of Louise Catharina Caroline (Vayhinger) Tafel — married 8 Aug 1826 in Sulz am Neckar, Württemberg, Deutscher Bund

Descendants

Died 1 Apr 1880 at age 80 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Johann Leonhard Friedrich was born in 1800 in Sulzbach am Kocher.^[1] He was the second youngest son of the Württemberg pastor Johann Friedrich Tafel (1756-1814) and Justina Christiana Beate Horn. Leonhard Tafel was the "pious" Tafel of the four Tafel brothers.

He had three highly gifted brothers, all of whom had nicknames:

• the Protestant theologian Johann Friedrich Immanuel Tafel (1796-1863), called the "wise man";
• the second brother was the later legal counsel Christian Friedrich August Tafel (1798-1856), called the "beautiful"; he was the father of Julie Tafel (1842-1936), who married Friedrich Bonhoeffer and by her son Karl grandmother of Dietrich Bonhoeffer was;
• the third Johann Friedrich Gottlob Tafel (1801-1874), the "Wilde", a fraternity, fighter for democracy and lawyer.

During his studies, he became in 1818, like his brother before, a member of the Old Tübingen fraternity Arminia . Tafel graduated in Tübingen in 1820 and was a teacher at grammar schools in Stuttgart, Ulm and Schorndorf for many years . There he introduced interlinear didactics to Hamilton . He published several periodicals, according to the daily newspaper "Observer", which was close to the liberal party (1849-1853).

He married Lousia Catharina Carolina Vayhinger on 8 Aug 1826 in Sulz am Neckar.^[2][3]

He was a private teacher in Stuttgart when he got married in 1826. The family moved in summer 1828 to München. He later became a teacher (Oberreallehrer) in Ulm.^[4]

In 1853 Tafel emigrated to the USA, where his son Rudolph Leonhard had already emigrated in 1847. For three years he became a professor at Urbana University, Ohio. He then moved to St. Louis, Missouri. He is the author of various textbooks of ancient and modern languages ​​and translated works by Xenophon , Cassius Dio , Charles Dickens , William Makepeace Thackeray , Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper into German.

His son, Rudolph Leonhard, educator, born in Ulm, Germany, 24 November, 1831, came to the United States in 184'7, and in 1860-'1 was teacher of French and German in Washington university, St. Louis. Mo. He held the chair of modern languages and comparative philology there from 1862 till 1868, and since the last-named year has been a Swedenborgian minister in London, England. He has published "Latin Pronunciation and the Latin Alphabet" with his father (New York, 1860);" Investigation into the Laws of English Pronunciation and Orthography" (1862); and "Emanuel Swedenborg as a Philosopher and Man of Science" (Chicago, 1867).

Sources

1. ↑ Church book Sulzbach am Kocher, Württemberg: Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart > Dekanat Gaildorf > Sulzbach am Kocher > Taufregister 1784-1808 Band 4 Archion image 96
2. ↑ Church book Flacht, Württemberg: Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart > Dekanat Leonberg > Flacht > Eheregister 1808-1883 Band 6 Archion image 23
3. ↑ Church book Sulz am Neckar, Württemberg: Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart > Dekanat Sulz am Neckar > Sulz am Neckar > Eheregister 1808-1845 Band 12 Archion image 84
4. ↑ Family table Sulz am Neckar, Württemberg: Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart > Dekanat Sulz am Neckar > Sulz am Neckar > Familienregister 1808-1828 Band 22, p. 830 Archion image 157

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