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Charles Beck
American politician
For the LAPD chief, see Charles L. Beck. For the American gospel musician, see Elder Charles D. Beck.
Charles Beck or Karl Beck (August 19, – March 19, ) was a German-born American classical scholar, Harvard professor and friend of Charles Follen.
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Biography
Beck was born in Heidelberg. His merchant father died when Beck was young, and his mother married Wilhelm de Wette, a theologian, biblical scholar, and professor in the University of Heidelberg.
In , the family moved to Berlin, where de Wette had been appointed professor of theology at the new Prussian university. In Berlin, while a student at the Werdersches Gymnasium, Beck began to frequent the Hasenheide Turnplatz where he became proficient in the arts of a Turner.[1]
Beck studied the classics at the University of Berlin, then theology at the University of Heidelberg where he was ordained, and finally at the University of Tübingen where he was awarded a Ph.D.[