Thomas C. Zimmerman

Colonel Thomas C. Zimmerman (1838-1914) was a Pennsylvania German language writer and translator. He was born in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA on 1838-01-23, and died in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania on 1914-11-13. Originally a printer by trade, he rose to the position of editor of the newspaper Reading Times (Pennsylvania), and took great delight in translating poems from different languages into the Pennsylvania German language (also known as Pennsylvania Dutch). A translation of Oliver Goldsmith's "An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog" appears in Vol. II of Olla Podrida, published by Mr. Zimmerman at Reading in 1903.

A few lines from 'N Traur-Gedicht Wuediger Hund:

Ihr gute Leut, fon alle Sort,

Gebt Ohr' mol zu meim Sang,

Und wan ihr find 's wart arrig karz,

Es halt eich g'wiss net lang.

In Eilington do war 'n Mann,

For den die Welt ufschtet,

Das shtill en gotlich Race er schpringt,

Wan er ans Bede geht. . . .

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NAME	Zimmerman, Thomas C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Pennsylvania German language writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	23 January 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States
DATE OF DEATH	13 November 1914
PLACE OF DEATH	Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States