Voelkel

(Titus), Dr., German lecturer and writer, b. Wirsitz (Pru ian Poland) 14 Dec. 1841. Studied ( ’ 59–65) theology, natural philosophy, and mathematics, and spent some years in France. He returned ’70, and was for ten years employed as teacher at higher schools. Since ’80 has been “sprecher” of Free thought a ociations and since ’85 editor of the Neues Freireligiöses Sonntags-Blatt , at Magdeburg . In ’88 he was several times prosecuted for blasphemy and each time acquitted. He represented several German societies at the Paris Congre of Freethinkers, ’89.