Karl Heinzen

Karl ( Peter ) Heinzen ( born February 22, 1809 in Grevenbroich, † November 12, 1880 in Boston ) was a German -American author and journalist.

Life

After attending school in his hometown Grevenbroich and in Kempen Heinzen began in 1827 to study medicine at the University of Bonn, where he became in 1828 a member of the Corps Guestphalia Bonn. In 1829 he was expelled from the university. He entered Dutch service and traveled to the East Indies. After his return and the Prussian military service, he became a civil servant in the tax administration. In several writings, he criticized the Prussian administration sharp and had to flee to Belgium in 1844, and later in Switzerland, and 1847 in the United States. From there, he led a journalistic confrontation with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the German - Brussels newspaper. From there he returned after the outbreak of the March Revolution of 1848 returned to Germany and supported the Baden Revolution. After its failure, he went back to the U.S., where he was editor and publisher of several newspapers, particularly the pioneer, 1859-1879 was published recently in Boston. Heinzen came into his writings for uncompromising democratic views a, from which he derived a morally -related equality of women. However, remains questionable his attitude to revolutionary violence, the advocated terrorist attacks against ruling dynasties such as against an innocent civilian population as a means to an end. He also published poetry and plays.

Writings

  • Trip to Batavia, Cologne 1841 digitized
  • The secret Konduitenlisten of officials, Cologne 1842
  • The Prussian Büreaukratie, Darmstadt 1845 digitized
  • A fact sheet, Schaerbeck 1845
  • The opposition. Edited by K. Heinzen. Heinrich Hoff, Mannheim 1846 digitized
  • Teutsche revolution. Collected pamphlets. Jenny, Berlin 1847 digitized
  • Only pure air, then clean soil. Jenni, son, Bern 1848 digitized
  • The heroes of the Teutonic communism. Dedicated to Mr. Karl Marx, Bern 1848 digitized
  • About the rights and status of women, New York 1852
  • Murder and Freedom, New York 1853
  • Collected Writings, 5 volumes, 1858-1872 Boston digitized Vol 3
  • Teutscher radicalism in America. Selected presentations. Published by the Society for the spread of radical principles. 1867 digitized
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