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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Hassaurek, Friedrich, 1831-1885 |
| Title, Monographic | Gedichte |
| Place of Publication | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Publisher | M. & R. Burgheim |
| Date of Publication | ©1877 |
| Extent of Work | 100 pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 16 cm |
| View Online | https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001196896 |
| Notes | On cover: Hassaurek's Gedichte. Verlag von M. & R. Burgheim. |
| MKI Annotation | German-American author; Schurz's collection. Inscribed "Hon. Carl Schurz with the compliments of the author." Friedrich Hassaurek, pseudonym Heinrich Fiedler, born October 8, 1831 in Vienna, died October 3, 1885 in Paris. Attended Gymnasium in Vienna, wounded in Revolution of 1848, came to America in 1849 where he founded in Cincinnati the Hochwächter and edited the Cincinnati Volksblatt. Admitted to the bar in 1857. Founded the Deutsche Institut in Cincinnati (1851), where German plays were performed, also founded there with Karl Obermann a Freimänner Verein. He was an agnostic and a bitter enemy of Karl Heinzen. He helped found the Republican Party, and was known as an excellent orator and good businessman and lawyer. In 1860 and 1868, Hassaurek was the delegate to Republican Nat'l Convention in Chicago. Named by Lincoln to ambassadorship in Ecuador in 1861. Returned to America in 1865. In Europe in 1875 and summer of 1877. Wrote several works in English and German. |
| Call Number | PIA OH |
| MKI Terms | Poetry/ Forty-eighters |