Karl g maeser biography of christopher

Sarah Jane Sandberg and Professor Brad Wilcox, Teacher Education

A chalk circle of honor, a memorial building, a statue: each of these items stand today on Brigham Young University campus as an echo from the past of a man who educated with love.

Nearly a century after his death, the legacy of Karl G. Maeser is still remembered. Photographs of this man capture his penetrating eyes and feet ready to march forward in the cause of truth. Who was this man of excellence and character?

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Why did his students revere him to such a degree?

Karl G. Maeser (Fig.1) was born in Meissen, Germany, on 16 January He was educated in both parochial and private school settings, attending the Gymnasium Kreuz Schule at Dresden and the Normal School at Friedrichstadt.

Maeser lived in Germany during a time in which it was popular to pursue a focused area of research and study. But rather than attend the prestigious schools of higher education, Maeser chose a vocation a