Hermann Abeken

Hermann Abeken (* June 27, 1820 in Osnabrück, † April 27, 1854 in Hannover ) was a German writer and politician.

Life

Abeken, the third son of the philologist and teacher Bernhard Rudolf Abeken, after school hours, a businessman training began in New York, but he dropped out because of a chest ailment. There he made ​​the acquaintance of the Count of Gorizia - Schliz, a friend of his prematurely deceased brother Friedrich Abeken. Together they studied at the universities of Göttingen and Berlin Law and traveled in 1844 and 1845 in the United States. Here Abeken was excited to its statistical and human rights work on slavery, which he began in the fall of 1846 in his home town of Osnabrück and later continued in Bonn and Berlin. He advocated for a constitutional form of government, but rejected the revolution of 1848.

In the summer of 1848 he was appointed by the Hanoverian minister Johann Carl Bertram Stueve as Chairman of the statistical offices of the Ministry. In this position, he published three books "On the statistics of the Kingdom of Hanover " ( 1850-53 ). He also wrote reviews for newspapers. A work on the developments in the East he could not finish, it appeared posthumously in 1856 under the title " Turkey's entry into the European policy of the 18th Century", edited by Karl Stueve.

Writings (selection )

• American Negro Slavery and Emancipation, Berlin 1847
• The Republic in North America and the plan of a democratic republican constitution for Germany, Berlin 1848
• 1789. 1848. Mirabeau on the royal veto, Berlin 1848
• The statistical monitoring of the Kingdom of Hanover, Hanover 1850-53
• Turkey's entry into the European policy of the 18th century, Hannover 1856