Jacob Bickler was a German-born American scholar and educator, who was president of the Texas State Teacher's Association.
16 Facts About Jacob Bickler
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Jacob Bickler was founder of the boys' Texas German and English Academy and the co-educational Bickler Academy, both located in Austin, Texas.
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Jacob Bickler was born on November 20,1849, in Bad Sobernheim, Kingdom of Prussia, to Peter Bickler and his wife Katherine Schoffling Bickler.
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Jacob Bickler received his early education in the public schools of Bad Sobernheim.
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Peter Bickler married a second time and moved to Milwaukee, where the teenaged Jacob joined the new couple in 1863.
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From 1863 to 1867, young Bickler attended Milwaukee high schools and Milwaukee Markham Academy College Preparatory School.
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On December 24,1872, Jacob Bickler moved to Austin, Texas, and joined his uncle Philip Bickler in teaching at the Bickler German English Academy, where artist Carl G von Iwonski had once taught.
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Land Commissioner Jacob Kuechler appointed Bickler assistant draftsman and calculator in the Texas General Land Office on April 1,1873.
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In 1876, Jacob Bickler founded the Texas German and English Academy in Austin, a boys' school that remained in operation until 1902.
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Jacob Bickler conceivably started the academy in the Wahrenberger House and kept his headquarters there, while moving the institute to the larger location as enrollment grew.
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In 1887, Jacob Bickler was elected president of the Texas State Teachers Association.
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In summer months, Jacob Bickler taught classes at both Fredericksburg and Mason.
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Jacob Bickler was a member of the summer faculty at the University of Texas.
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Jacob Bickler was a leading proponent for establishment of the 1891 College of Education at the university.
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On January 24,1874, Jacob Bickler married Martha Lungkwitz, daughter of artist Hermann Lungkwitz.
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Jacob Bickler died in Austin on April 30,1902, and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Austin, Texas.