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Dietrich Lange

Biographical Notes

Date of birth: June 2, 1863, Bonstorf, Germany
Date of death: November 19, 1940, St. Paul, Minnesota

Dietrich Lange. Educator and author. Born Johann Dietrich Lange (named after his father) in the Kingdom of Hanover. Arrived with family in Nicollet, Minnesota, when he was eighteen. Taught at a German parochial school. Graduated from Mankato Normal School (later Mankato State University) in 1886. B.A., University of Minnesota, 1909. Taught at Nicollet County parochial school, circa 1881-83. Elementary and secondary school teacher, St. Paul Public Schools, circa 1887-1914. Taught at Central High School, St. Paul, after 1899; principal of Humboldt High School, St. Paul, starting in 1906. Nature study supervisor, 1889-1906, 1939-40; superintendent of schools 1914-16; principal, Mechanic Arts High School, 1916-39. Wrote On the Trail of the Sioux (1911), set in Minnesota during the U.S.-Dakota conflict of 1862, and other juvenile historical fiction, including Birds of the Midwest (1922), and other nature books. Active conservationist; president of the Minnesota Forestry Association. President of the Minnesota division of the old League of American Sportsmen, a forerunner of wildlife conservation bodies in the United States. First president of the Minnesota Izaak Walton League, 1923; honorary president, 1931. A game refuge in Kandiyohi County was named for him in 1941.

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Additional Resources

Sources used to prepare this author entry

The following bibliography may include links to Web sites that are no longer operable or have changed location. The sources are shown as they existed in the fall of 1999 when the entries were compiled.
  • "Dietrich Lange papers, 1889-1940." St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society.
  • Minneapolis Journal, 19 Nov. 1940, p. 16.
  • Minnesota Authors. St. Paul: Library Division, State Department of Education, 1934.
  • St. Paul Dispatch, 23 May 1941, Section 2, p. 19.
  • St. Paul News, 28 May 1933, Section 1, p. 6.
  • St. Paul Pioneer Press, 16 Dec. 1923, Section 3, p. 3.
  • St. Paul Pioneer Press, 19 Nov. 1940, p. 1.
  • St. Paul Pioneer Press, 30 Nov. 1940, p. 4.
  • Upham, Warren, and Rose Dunlap. Minnesota biographies, 1655-1912. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1912.
  • Who Was Who Among North American Authors, 1921-1939. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1976.
  • Who's Who Among North American Authors, 1933-35.. Los Angeles, Golden Syndicate Publishing Co., 1935.
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