Friedrich Karl Castelhun was born February 27, 
1828, in Nordheim near Worms in Hesse. He came with his parents to Illinois in 1847. After graduating from the University of Michigan’s medical school in 1852, he studied in Würzburg, Vienna, Prague, and Berlin. Castelhun practiced medicine and wrote poetry in St. Louis and San Francisco. He died November 1, 1905, in San Francisco.
Works
Gedichte von Friedrich Karl Castelhun. Milwaukee: Freidenker Publishing Co., 1883.
Gedichte von Friedrich Karl Castelhun. Dritte, verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage. Zürich: Buchhandlung des Schweiz. Grütlivereins und Milwaukee: Freidenker-Publishing Co., 1901.
Contributed poems to Deutsch-Amerikanische Dichtung (New York: H. Rosenthal und Co.) and Amerikanischer Turner Kalender (Milwaukee, Dörflinger Pub. Co.).
Castelhun’s Seventieth Birthday (San Francisco Call Bulletin, Feb. 27, 1898)
