Carl F. W. Huth
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Carl F. W. Huth | |
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| Born | Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Huth November 30, 1857 |
| Died | April 23, 1926 (aged 68) |
| Children | 14, including Carl F. Huth |
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| Education | Concordia Seminary (BA) |
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| Discipline | Classics |
| Institutions | Concordia Seminary |
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Huth (November 30, 1857 – April 23, 1926) was a German-born American professor of classics and the first teacher hired at Concordia College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Huth was born in Nieden,[1] Brandenburg, which was at the time a province of Prussia. His parents were Johann Friedrick Huth and Wilhelmine Christine Anna Maertins Huth.[2] The family emigrated to the United States in 1868 and settled in Chicago.[3] He was educated at Northwestern College in Watertown, Wisconsin, where he excelled at baseball and fencing,[3] and then at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, from which he graduated in 1881. He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Concordia Seminary in 1921.[3]
Career
Upon graduation from the seminary, Huth was immediately hired to teach Greek and Latin at Concordia College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he remained from 1881 to 1926.[4]