Johann Friedrich Karl Leonhard plaque

Johann Friedrich Leonhard Tafel (born February 6, 1800 in Sulzbach am Kocher ; † April 1, 1880 in Philadelphia ) was a Protestant translator (including the Bible), author and educator.

Johann Friedrich Leonhard Tafel, picture shot before 1880

Life

He was the second youngest son of the Württemberg pastor Johann Friedrich Tafel (1756–1814) and Justina Christiana Beate Tafel, born. Horn.

He had three highly gifted brothers: the Protestant theologian Johann Friedrich Immanuel Tafel (1796–1863), known as the “Wise”; the second brother was the later legal counsel Christian Friedrich August Tafel (1798-1856), called the "beautiful"; he was the father of Julie Tafel (1842–1936), who married Friedrich Bonhoeffer and became the grandmother of Dietrich Bonhoeffer through her son Karl ; the third Johann Friedrich Gottlob Tafel (1801–1874), the “wild one”, a fraternity member , fighter for democracy and lawyer. Leonhard Tafel was called the "Pious".

During his studies in 1818, like his brother before, he became a member of the old Tübingen fraternity Arminia . Tafel graduated from Tübingen in 1820 and was a teacher at grammar schools in Stuttgart, Ulm and Schorndorf for many years . There he introduced interlinear didactics according to Hamilton . He published various periodicals, such as the daily "Observer", which was close to the liberal party (1849-1853).

In 1853, Tafel emigrated to the USA, where his son Rudolph Leonhard had already emigrated in 1847. For three years he became a professor at Urbana University, Ohio. He then moved to St. Louis, Missouri. He is the author of various textbooks, old and modern, and has translated works by Xenophon , Cassius Dio , Charles Dickens , William Makepeace Thackeray , Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper into German.

Works

• State and Christianity . Tubingen (1851)
• The Christian and the atheist . Philadelphia (1856)
• Latin Pronunciation and the Latin Alphabet . New York (1860), co-author: his son Rudolph Leonhard Tafel
• German-English and English-German Pocket Dictionary . (1870), co-author: his son Ludwig H. Tafel
• The Bible or the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments translated with added parallel passages by Dr. Leonhard board . Revised by Professor Ludwig H. Tafel. (PDF; 5.59 MB)

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 4-6.
• Panel, Johann Friedrich Leonhard . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 6 : Sunderland - Zurita . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1889, p. 19 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).