Albert Green

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Albert Green 1822–1904

Albert Grün (born May 31, 1822 in Lüdenscheid , † April 22, 1904 in Strasbourg ) was a German revolutionary from 1848/49 , teacher and author of various literary works.

Pre-march

Albert Grün was the son of an elementary school teacher and was the brother of Karl Grün . He first attended schools in his hometown and in 1836 switched to high school in Barmen . Already in Obersekunda he left school to work as a mountain aspirant in coal mines in the emerging Ruhr area and to prepare for the higher mountain subject. After he had already been to the Bochum mountain school for a short time , he had to go back to the grammar school for some time due to new regulations. Then he was Bergeleve in Essen .

Some time later, Grün turned his back on mining and worked for an insurance company in Cologne . He also passed his high school diploma. Then he studied philology in Bonn . Like his brother, Grün was on the side of the political opposition in the pre-March period . He went into exile in Brussels in 1846 because of an alleged insult to majesty in a publication he published . He tried to stay afloat with lectures on modern drama.

Revolution 1848/49

Grün returned to Germany during the revolution of 1848. He was active on the side of the early socialists. In Berlin, for example, he was chairman of the Königsstädtischer Maschinenbauerverein - a preliminary form of a trade union. In 1849 he was the representative of the revolutionary, provisional government of the Kingdom of Saxony in Frankfurt am Main. Later he was civil commissioner of the provisional revolutionary government in the Palatinate . He worked in particular as a journalist for the uprising in the Palatinate.

Life in Strasbourg

Because of his involvement in the Baden uprising , he had to flee to Strasbourg in exile in France. In absentia he was sentenced to death. In Strasbourg, he first taught German language and literature in girls' boarding schools and in public lectures. After the annexation of Alsace, he was editor of the Niederrheinischer Couriers in Strasbourg from 1870 to 1872. Then he was a teacher of history and literature in the secondary school for girls until 1895. In 1895, Grün was appointed high school professor. In Strasbourg he was chairman of the local organization of the General German Language Association . He also tried to contribute to the reconciliation of Germans and French.

In addition to political writings, Grün published dramas, poems and folklore writings on Alsace. Among his works was a play about Friederike Brion that was praised at the time . A drama about Georg Forster went unpublished. He also dealt critically with the revolution of 1848/49.

Works (selection)

  • Open letter to the Bonn students . Bonn 1846
  • The Frankfurt Pre-Parliament and its roots in France and Germany . Leipzig: Wigand 1849.
  • The Schlitter and Holzhauer from the Vosges or twenty-four hours in the Hohwald. Sketches of nature and people with 43 original lithographic drawings by T. Schuler . Strasbourg / E .: Treuttel and Würtz 1854
  • Goethe's Faust. Correspondence with a lady . Gotha: Scheube 1856 digitized
  • Out of exile . Poems. Strasbourg / E. 1859
  • German refugees. Time image. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe 1851.
  • The ABC of aesthetics. Five lectures given in Strasbourg . Strasbourg / E .: Treuttel and Würtz 1856
  • Friederike [from Sesenheim]. Play. With a facsimile of the title heroine . Strasbourg / E .: Treuttel and Würtz 1859
  • The forester's house in the Vosges. Truth and Poetry [novel] . 4 vols. Leipzig: Günther 1874
  • Georg Forster: Drama . Kassel: Kassel Univ. Press 1999.

literature

  • Eckhard Trox: Albert Grün. (1822-1904). A biography. Volume accompanying the exhibition November 30, 1997–22. February 1998 . Lüdenscheid: Culture Department of the City of Lüdenscheid, 1997

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personal data
SURNAME Green, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German revolutionary 1848/49, teacher and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludenscheid
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1904
Place of death Strasbourg