Paul Maximilian Voelkel (1839–1907)

German schoolteacher. Born in Wirsitz, Posen, Prussia (Wyrzysk, Poland). Studied and worked in France and England, 1864–75. Studied at the University of London and resided at the grammar school in Brentwood, Essex, in 1872. Qualified as a teacher of French, English, mathematics, and Latin, Breslau, 1876; philosophy and pedagogy, 1877. Teacher at the Königliche Französische Gymnasium (Royal French Grammar School), Berlin, 1878–90; senior teacher, 1890–5; professor, 1895–9.

Sources

Festschrift zur Feier des 200 jährigen Bestehens des Königlichen französischen Gymnasiums, p. 123

letter from Ernst Krause, 16 August 1879

Personaldaten von Lehrern und Lehrerinnen Preußens, Archivdatenbank, Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtlich Forschung des DIPF, http://archivdatenbank.bbf.dipf.de/actaproweb/index.xhtml (accessed 27 April 2018)

Records of the University of London, http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/CopyofExaminationRegisters.pdf (accessed 24 April 2018)