Dr. Friedrich Karl Castelhun, 1828-1905

An engraving of a portrait of F. K. Castelhun.

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. Contributed poems to Deutsch-Amerikanische Dichtung (New York: H. Rosenthal und Co.) and Amerikanischer Turner Kalender (Milwaukee, Dörflinger Pub. Co.). 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.

Review of Gedichte, by Friedrich Karl Castelhun, 1896.

“Reviews,” by M. D. Learned. Americana Germanica, vol. 1, no. 2, 1897.

An oil painting portrait of F. K. Castelhun.

Castelhun’s Seventieth Birthday (San Francisco Call Bulletin, Feb. 27, 1898)

Notice of the death of Dr. Friedrich Karl Castelhun. Text in German. — *Monatshefte für deutsche Sprache und Pädagogik*, vol. 7, no. 1, Jan. 1906.