Gustav Brühl (author)

Gustav Brühl (pseudonym: Kara Giorg; born May 31, 1826 in Herdorf, † April 16, 1903 in Cincinnati ) was a physician, poet and archaeologist.

Life

Gustav Brühl's father was John Peter Brühl, royal shift supervisors on Hollertszug, mining conductor, postmaster and innkeeper. 1844 Brühl made ​​his Abitur in Trier. He studied in Munich, Halle / Saale and Berlin, medicine, philosophy and history. In 1848 he passed the examination as a physician and researcher in Berlin. His spirit of adventure and the turmoil of the revolution in Germany in 1848 verschlugen him, together with his wife Magdalene, to America, where he witnessed the development of the continent by the great trek westward and industrialization first hand. He settled in Cincinnati as a physician, began writing and occupied his leisure with archeology. As he had made it as a doctor some prosperity, he traveled across America, parts of the Orient and Europe. Numerous seals are the result of his travels.

Work as a writer

Brühl brought it with numerous books to international fame, occasionally, with the pseudonym " Kara Giorg ", which he used for example in his 1870 published book of poetry poetry of the forest. In his poems he frequently dealt with the performance of the German overseas or with old Indian word that he wanted to protect it from oblivion. 1869/70, he founded the monthly magazine " The German pioneer" and " Peter Claver Society for the Education of Colored Children" in America. 1903 appeared the epic and lyric poetry Skanderbeg.

Work as an archaeologist

Brühl contributed to the archaeological excavations at Toris, the first Greek city on the Black Sea. Even today, to read in the library of Constanza his name.