Adolf Lafaurie

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Adolf (Adolph) Wilhelm Lafaurie (born January 17, 1816 in Hamburg ; † February 26, 1875 there ) was a German politician .

Life

Born as the son of a merchant from Bordeaux , Lafaurie went to high schools in Altona and Hamburg. In 1836 he began to study philosophy , history and philology in Kiel with a focus on law and political science . In 1837 he moved to Jena , where he became a member of the fraternity society on the Burgkeller . In 1838 he went to Berlin , where he presumably met Karl Marx . In 1839 he continued his studies in Heidelberg and Munich . In 1841 he was promoted to Dr. phil. et jur. PhD with venia legendi .

From 1841 to 1843 he worked as a freelance writer in Berlin. During this time he heard from Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and studied the writings of Ludwig Feuerbach . He went to Paris , where he spent three years studying the socialists there. He was a listener at the Collège de France , where he heard Jules Michelet . In 1844 he met Karl Marx in Paris.

As a staunch socialist, he returned to Jena in 1846, where he wrote the weekly newspaper Thuringian People's Tribune. Organ of democracy. , the party organ of the Thuringian democrats , founded and published together with Gustav Rothe. At a people's assembly in Jena in 1848, his proposal was accepted to send a delegation to Weimar and to demand basic democratic rights under the threat of an uprising. He was chairman of the Democratic Association and led the Democrats and Republicans in Jena. His appearance had a strong influence on the Burgkellerburschenschaft , which at that time was a leader in the Progress . In 1848, in an open letter from the Democratic Association, together with Gustav Rothe and Ferdinand Lange, he called on the Jena member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, Christian Schüler , to create a democratic republic of Germany and a republican Free State of Thuringia. In 1848 he was finally arrested on the occasion of a tax evasion campaign and sentenced to one year in prison in 1849. He served his imprisonment at the Osterburg . He was then banished and went to Kiel, where he accepted a teaching position as a private lecturer . 1850 to 1851 was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state assembly as the leader of the extreme left .

He moved to Hamburg, where he worked for a short time as a teacher at the German Catholic parish school . In 1852 he began studying medicine , which took him to Würzburg , Vienna and Prague . In 1855 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. From 1856 he worked as a general practitioner in Hamburg. There he founded and directed an anti-vaccination association .

Publications (selection)

  • The material interests: A critical illumination of the political economy in its current form as a science. Dissertation University of Kiel, Kiel 1841.
  • The practical importance of modern philosophy in France. In: Jahrbücher der Gegenwart , Tübingen 1846, pp. 937–970.
  • History of trade in relation to political economy and public ethics. Stuttgart 1848. ( Online )
  • Free churches and free people. Hamburg 1851. ( Online )
  • Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark's paper law. Hamburg 1852. ( Online )
  • Society's last resort is bankruptcy. Hamburg 1852.
  • On the inadequacy of the previous pemphigus diagnosis, with illustration and description of self-observed, rare and sometimes controversial cases. Dissertation University of Würzburg, Würzburg 1856.
  • A look into the guild life of the German medicine. Hamburg 1866. ( Online )
  • The unfounded of the vaccination doctrine and the unjustified of coercion. An open letter to the German Reichstag. Hamburg 1873. ( Online )

literature

personal data
SURNAME Lafaurie, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lafaurie, Adolf Wilhelm (full name); Adolph (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1875
Place of death Hamburg