Karl G. Maeser
Karl Gottfried Maeser ( born January 16, 1828 in Vorbrücke, † February 15, 1901 in Salt Lake City ) was a German theologian and educator Mormon.
Life
The son of a signer of the Meissen porcelain factory first attended a private school and then moved to the Cross School in Dresden. Having a teacher seminar in Friedrichstadt and at the Royal Polytechnic School in Dresden completed a teacher training, he became a teacher in Dresden, Tutor in Bohemia and deputy director of a school in Dresden -Neustadt.
In 1854 he married Anna Mieth; In 1855 he was baptized as a member of the Mormons, was a Mormon, so he had to give up his position as head teacher. Maeser emigrated in 1856 and was active in mission. He worked in London and Scotland and went to 1857 in the U.S., where it first then he moved to Philadelphia to Virginia and he worked as a music teacher.
In 1860 he went to Utah, where he founded a school for boys and girls, as well as a night school for men and women in Salt Lake City. The following year he was appointed as head of the Union Academy, which he largely goal for 1862 and this also occurred at other schools in Utah. Later he went as head of the Mormon missions to Switzerland and Germany back to Europe and was involved in the publication of the German church newspaper "The Star".
In 1870, he returned to Salt Lake City, was involved in the establishment of the general department of the University of Utah and after the establishment of the first church University, Brigham Young University in Provo on October 16, 1875 its rector. In this capacity, he presented in 1894 at the World Exhibition in San Francisco, the Church Educational System in the United States dar.