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=== In Germany === | === In Germany === | ||
Adolph Pagenstecher was born in Osnabrück, in the Kingdom of Hanover, on 1 July 1837 to Georg and Agnes Pagenstecher. | |||
=== In Australia === | === In Australia === | ||
Adolph Pagenstecher left Cuxhaven on 14 October 1860 aboard the Elizabeth, and arrived in Melbourne on 19 February 1861, at the age of 24.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148696329 |title=VESSELS EXPECTED TO ARRIVE. |newspaper=[[Geelong Advertiser]] |issue=4,489 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=18 February 1861 |accessdate=14 July 2022 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>PROV, VA 606 Department of Trade and Customs, VPRS 947 Inward Overseas Passenger Lists, P0000 Jan - Apr 1861, <nowiki>https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12189/3B19C758-F96C-11E9-AE98-83A363F01077</nowiki></ref> By April he had set up as a teacher of music at 64 Little Collins Street East, providing lessons in piano, bass and other instruments for adults and children over the age of 8, and had expanded to classes in Greek, Latin and French by June.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154889739 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[The Age]] |issue=2,025 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=22 April 1861 |accessdate=14 July 2022 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5700866 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)]] |issue=4,685 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=8 June 1861 |accessdate=14 July 2022 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> On the 19th of August, Adolph instigated the rescue of an elderly man who had leapt from the Sandridge Railway Pier into Hobson's Bay, and hauled the man, and another who had dived in to the bay, to safety.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13059621 |title=MELBOURNE. |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |volume=XLIV, |issue=7243 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=26 August 1861 |accessdate=14 July 2022 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> | |||
By July 1863, Adolph was living in Adelaide, and had already become part of Adelaide society as member of the Foresters and as a pianist.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50180474 |title=CONSOLIDATION OF THE LAW. |newspaper=[[South Australian Register]] |volume=XXVII, |issue=5222 |location=South Australia |date=21 July 1863 |accessdate=14 July 2022 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> According to a lawsuit at the same time, it appears Pagenstecher arrived in South Australia in early 1863 under an assumed name and, unable to find work as a teacher, was employed by the Dornwell's, a German butcher on Tynte Street.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article90261508 |title=LOCAL COURT-ADELAIDE. |newspaper=[[South Australian Weekly Chronicle]] |volume=VI, |issue=263 |location=South Australia |date=8 August 1863 |accessdate=14 July 2022 |page=2 (Supplement to the South Australian Weekly Chronicle.) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> By the end of 1863, Pagenstecher had made the moves to begin his own school on Tynte Street, while living at H. A. Böhm's Dover Castle Hotel on Archer Street. His new institution was initially named | |||
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From the Australische Zeitung, Tuesday 28 September 1875: | From the Australische Zeitung, Tuesday 28 September 1875: | ||
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