Edgar Bauer

Edgar Bauer ( born October 7, 1820 Charlottenburg; † August 18, 1886 in Hannover ) was a political and philosophical writer and activist. He also published under the pseudonym of Martin Geismar and Radge.

Life

Beginning in 1849 went to Hamburg Bauer. Later, he lived under a false name in Altona and worked in 1851 as an editor for the newspaper Altona, which was at the Schleswig -Holstein war on Denmark. On the run from the Prussian police he arrived via Copenhagen to London. There he often met Karl Marx, whom he knew from Berlin ago. However, the relationship between the two was not very good. Jenny Marx wrote in a letter to Friedrich Engels in August 1857: "A few nights a clown Edgar Bauer was with us; but which is really become without cod liver oil on a stick fish that it still wants to be witty. The Efforts were so terrible that I almost fainted, Karl but not figuratively, but actually came to breaking ".

Bauer was in his time in London working as an informant for the Danish authorities and wrote between November 1852 and May 1861 more than a hundred reports of political activities of emigrants. In September 1856, he distanced himself from the revolutionary movement: "I am the way of democracy followed, I have this champion of freedom only grumpy, then hardened, and then see in their calculations are almost childish, up here a phrase, there is a principle, there fell off a Zukunftscalcül like dry leaves of ersterbendem Baume and in the end nothing was left as uncertainty, variability, mental misery ".

The amnesty of 1861 enabled him to return to Germany. He lived as an editor in Berlin, founded in 1870 in Altona, the conservative Church leaves. A Journal of Christian freedom and Christian law, in its publisher and its editors - initially in collaboration with Bishop Koopmann - published until March 1872, and then went to Hanover, where he worked in publishing for the Protestant supporters of the 1866 sold by Prussia Welf dynasty. After farmer had in 1884 suffered a stroke that paralyzed him, he passed away on August 18, 1886 of a heart attack.

Edgar Bauer was with Albertine Michaelis ( * 1819 in Berlin) married since 1851. He had five children, including Anntonie (* 1850 Ottensen ) and William.

Work

Bauer's early writings are so imbued with desire for freedom that Max Nettlau, the historian of anarchism, has provided him avant la lettre in the ancestral line of anarchism. Earlier Gustav Landauer had the young Edgar Bauer called the man " anarchism for Germany actually justified " was published, and a lost text from him. After 1848 he developed from pre-March revolutionary to the " state-supporting " citizens.

His estate is located in the Archives of Social Democracy in Bonn.

Writings

• Bruno Bauer and his opponents. Jonas, Berlin 1842
• ( Edgar Bauer / Friedrich Engels): The sassy bedräute, but wonderfully liberated Bible. Or: the triumph of faith. That is: Terrible, but true and erkleckliche Historia of the erstwhile licentiate Bruno Bauer; as Selbiger deceived by the devil, fallen from the pure faith, has become Oberteufel and finally terrified kräftiglich. Christian heroic poem in four cantos. Hess, Neumünster in Zurich in 1842
• History of Europe since the first French Revolution ( by Archibald Alison ). In: German Yearbooks of Science and Art, 14./15./16. December 1842, pp. 1185-1195; Reprint in: Heinz and Ingrid Pepperle (ed. ): The Hegelian Left; Leipzig: Philipp Reclam jun. 1985, p 522-546
• The dispute between the criticism with church and state. Egbert Bauer, Charlottenburg 1843 abridged reprint in: Heinz and Ingrid Pepperle (ed. ): The Hegelian Left; Leipzig: Philipp Reclam jun. 1985, p 579-712 Digitalisat
• The Censorship Instruction of 31 January 1843. Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1843 digitized
• Dispute the criticism with the modern opposites. With contributions by Bruno Bauer, Edgar Bauer, Ernst Jungnitz, among others Szelige Digitalisat
• Memoirs on the history of modern times, 12 books; 1843-1844 ( with Bruno Bauer) digitized; digitized; Digitalisat
• The history of constitutional movements in southern Germany during the years 1831-34, 3 vols. Egbert Bauer, Charlottenburg 1845
• The art of historiography and Mr. Dahl 's History of the French Revolution. Falckenber, Magdeburg 1846
• Martin von Geismar: History of Lutheranism. 5 vols, club Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1846-1847
• The man and the marriage before the judgment seat of morality. By W. Marr In: The epigones. Fifth band (1848 ), pp. 317-343
• Reflections on the Integrity of the Danish Monarchy. Wertheim and Macintosh, London 1857
• English freedom. Otto Wigang Leipzig 1857 digitized
• Schleswig. Value Hein, Macintosh and Chunt. London 1861
• The duchy of Holstein and his rights. A memorandum for the Holstein estates Assembly. From a Prussia. Heinicke, Berlin 1863
• The Germans and their neighbors. Hamburg 1870 not detected in any library. Gamby, p 69
• Peace songs. Altona 1871 ( 2nd edition 1871)
• The Teutsche Empire in its historical form. Zuhleich a contribution to verify the origin of the Germans, Cherusker, Celts and Slavs. Bauer, Altona 1872
• The truth about the International. Bauer, Altona 1872
• Article V, of German thought and the Danish monarchy. Bauer, Altona 1873
• Language teaching. First stage. Bauer, Hannover 1874
• The Freemasons and the light. Modules on the history of the lodge and religious myth. Bauer, Hannover 1877
• The Magus of the North. Amendment. E. Grimm, Leipzig 1882
• The Capital and the Capital power. Principles and facts to understanding the social question. E. Grimm, Hannover 1884 (2nd edition 1888)
• Edgar Bauer. Confidant reports on European emigration to London 1852 - 1861st Edited by Erik Gamby. Texts edited by Margret Dietzen and Elizabeth New. Trier 1989 ISBN 3-926132 -06- X (fonts from the Karl Marx House Issue 38)