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 | | George William Edward Ernest von Zedlitz, first professor of modern languages at Victoria College, Wellington, New Zealand, was born near Neukirch, Germany, on 10 March 1871, the only child of an Englishwoman, Mary Bethia Wolff, and her husband, Baron Sigismund von Zedlitz und Neukirch, a soldier and head of an old Silesian family. |
 | | On 22 March 1902 he arrived in Wellington to join the four foundation professors and in the first year had nearly 40 pupils in French and German. |
 | | Widely known in Wellington as 'Von' or 'Old Von', he was called upon for a variety of services: to translate an obscure language, to speak to a student club, to judge a literary competition. |
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