Johann Ludwig Tellkampf was a German scholar and politician who taught in Germany

Germany

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 and the United States

United States

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Biography

Tellkampf came to the United States in 1838, engaged in teaching, and in 1843-47 was professor of the German language

German language

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 and literature

German literature

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 in Columbia

Columbia University

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. He then returned to Germany as professor in Breslau. In 1848 he was elected to the Frankfurt parliament

Frankfurt Parliament

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, in 1849 to the Prussian Chamber of Deputies, in 1855 to the Herrenhaus

Prussian House of Lords

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, and in 1871 to the first German Reichstag

Reichstag (German Empire)

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Works

• Political Economy, with Alonzo Potter
  Alonzo Potter
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  (New York, 1840)
• Ueber die Besserungsgefängnisse in Nord-Amerika und England (On reformatories in North America and England, 1844)
• Essays on Law Reform and Commercial Policy, with his brother Theodore (London, 1859)
• Ueber Arbeiterverhältnisse und Erwerbsgenossenschaften in England und Nord-Amerika (1870)
• Selbstverwaltung und Reforme der Gemeinde und Kreisordnungen in Preussen, und Self-Government in England und Nord-Amerika (Self-government and reform of community and district regulations in Prussia, and self-government in England and North America, 1872)