Reinhold Solger

Reinhold Carl Ernst Friedrich Solger ( born July 17, 1817 in Stettin, † January 11, 1866 Washington) was a statesman, scholar and writer.

Life

Ernst Reinhold Solger studied mathematics and philosophy at Halle and Greifswald. As a member of the Corps Marchia Hall (1839 ) and Guestfalia Greifswald (1840 ), he was among the founders of Borussia Greifswald, which later awarded him an honorary membership.

After the violent dissolution of the Prussian National Assembly on November 14, 1848 Solger Prussia had to leave because he was threatened with imprisonment; However, he was pardoned in 1862. His escape led him to the United States of America, where he was professor of history and mathematics at the United States Military Academy West Point. This period was the heyday of his literary work. He was one of the prominent representatives of the so-called Forty- Eighters.

1862 followed Solger a call to Washington, D.C. and assumed the post of Secretary of State in the United States Department of the Treasury. His life ended by a stroke on 11 January 1866.

Among his most famous works of Anton belongs in America - a novel from German American life.