Heinrich Hermann Adolf Fick was born August 16, 1849, in Luebeck, and died March 23, 1935, in Chicago. In Luebeck he studied history, literature, and language at the Grossheim’sche Schule. Coming to America in 1861, he first worked for an uncle in New York before relocating to Cincinnati, where he taught German in public schools. In 1884, he moved to Chicago where he met and married Clementine Barna, who was also a teacher of German. With Barna and colleague Louis Schutt, Fick founded a German-English school. He returned to Cincinnati in 1890, where he was appointed head of German instruction, principal, and assistant superintendent of public schools (1892-1901). He received his doctorate in 1892 from Ohio University. He was active in the founding of German-American Teachers’ Seminary in Milwaukee, was a member of several leading German-American organizations, and was a famous historian in the area of German-American studies. Friend of H. A. Rattermann and other German-American writers. Part of his large collection of Americana Germanica was given to the University of Cincinnati. Prolific writer and well-known educator. Ms. of his autobiography, Im Rahmen von sechs Jahrzehnten (Cincinnati, 1924) at the University of Cincinnati.
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About H. H. Fick and the German-Americana Collection, website of the University of Cincinnati Libraries
https://libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/collections/german-americana/hh-fick.html