UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
N A V I G A T I O N D I G I T A L L I B R A R Y
Bookmark and Share



Repository: UIHistories Project: Illio - 1895 [PAGE 13]

Caption: Illio - 1895
This is a reduced-resolution page image for fast online browsing.


Jump to Page:
< Previous Page [Displaying Page 13 of 191] Next Page >
[VIEW ALL PAGE THUMBNAILS]




EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:



professor HSowaro £n\$cr, no. fl.,

Was born at Sokal, Austrian Poland, October 7, 1835, and received his education at Lemberg, the capi- • tal of his native province, and at Vienna. After the revolution of 1848-49 he entered the Austrian army and attended the military schools at Kronstadt and Mauer. Commissioned lieutenant in 1854, he served with the army of occupation sent to prevent the war (Crimean) from extending into what is now the Kingdom of Roumania, then a Turkish province under Austrian protectorate. For two years he t a u g h t History and Languages in the Cadet School of Gratz and Styria; participated in the Italian campaign of 1859 (battles of Palestro, Magenta and Solferino). T h e next two years were spent in teaching- Languages and History in a Cadet school, in Este, Italy. Coming- to this country in 1862, he enlisted in the 7th (afterward consolidated with the 178th) New York Infantry Volunteers, and served for three years under Generals Sherman, Thomas and

10

A. J. Smith, participating* in about twenty battles and skirmishes. After, the war, he taug-ht in St. Louis and in the high school of Carlinville, Illinois. In the summer of 1868 he was appointed instructor in German and B<x>kkeeping in the 1 1— 1i Industrial University; in 1870 professor of German and Military Science, and commissioned Colonel of the Illinois National Guard. In October, 1891, the University Battalion under his command was called out by Governor Palmer for duty during* the Chicago fire. He remained in charge of the University battalion until 1880, receiving in 1873 the appointment of professor of Modern L a n g u a g e s and Military Science, and in 1889 t h a t of professor of the German L a n g u a g e and Literature. retarv the Board of Trustees from 1870 till 1887, and was Business Agent of the University from 1870 till 1875. Has been Dean of the College of Literature since 1874.