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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Title, Monographic | Des Lahrer Hinkenden Boten Vetter in Amerika neuer Kalender fuer Stadt und Land auf das Jahr 1890 |
| Place of Publication | Philadelphia, Pa. |
| Publisher | Morwitz |
| Date of Publication | 1890 |
| Extent of Work | 88 |
| Abstract | Includes astrological tables, short stories, poems, and elaborate illustrations |
| Notes | [From Wikipedia: Edward / Eduard Morwitz was born 12 June 1815 in Danzig, Prussia and died 13 December 1893 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a physician and inventor in Germany and a newspaper publisher and physician in the United States. The son of a wealthy merchant, he studied at the universities of Halle, Leipzig, and Berlin, receiving a medical degree from Berlin in 1841. During the 1848 revolutions, he favored the revolutionaries, and as a result felt pressure to emigrate. By 1852 he had settled in Philadelphia. In 1853 he purchased the German-language newspaper Demokrat and in 1855 he began the publication of a political weekly called Vereinigte Staaten Zeitung and a Sunday paper called Die Neue Welt. Loyal to the Union, Morwitz helped to organize and equip regiments sent to the field during the Civil War. In 1862 he was active in establishing the German Press Association of Pennsylvania. In 1870 he was influential in raising funds to assist German soldiers during the Franco-Prussian War. About $600,000 was raised throughout the country and sent to Germany. In 1874, Morwitz purchased the Age, a daily newspaper of Philadelphia published in the English language; but in 1875 he sold it to the Times Publishing Company. He controlled many German-language and English-language newspapers in several states, having under his management at one time as many as 300 papers, among them eight dailies.] |
| Call Number | MKI P89-69 |
| MKI Terms | PIA/ Calendars & Almanacs/ Fiction/ Poetry |