Caspar Stürenburg

Caspar Stürenburg (* 1843 in Aurich ; † March 26, 1909 in New York City ) was a German lawyer and German-American journalist and author.

Life

Caspar Stürenburg came from an old family in East Frisia and studied law in 1864 at the University of Göttingen and then at the University of Berlin . In 1864 he became a member of the Corps Hannovera in Göttingen . In Berlin he gained his first journalistic experience as an employee of Adolf Glaßbrenner . In 1868 Stürenburg went to New York as a correspondent for the Neue Hannoversche Zeitung . In 1869 he joined the editorial team of the New York Demokratie and moved to the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung in 1876 , where he wrote editorials and art reviews and worked as a columnist. In addition, he wrote writings and books aimed at the target group of German-Americans living in the USA as well as Germans willing to emigrate. He died in Flatbush , Brooklyn .

Fonts

• Old acquaintances from the New York German Quarter , New York o. J.
• Joyful and sorrowful. Pictures from the New York German Quarter , New York no year.
• Pictures from the tenement barracks in New York's German Quarter , New York o. J.
• Little Germany. Pictures from everyday New York life , New York 1886 (3rd edition 1889, later edition Nördlingen 1891, also as pictures from the American life of Germans in America )
• with Ernst Steiger: Information and advice for German-Americans on the most important questions of public, legal, business and private life , New York 1888

literature

• Marin Tielke: Stuerenburg (family) , in: Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland , Volume 1, Aurich 1993, pp. 331–333
• Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen , Volume 1: 1809-1899 , Göttingen 2002, No. 685
• Peter Conolly-Smith: Johann Rittig and Caspar Stürenburg: the Exile's vs. the Immigrant's Variation on the New York German Local Color Serial (engl.)
• Patricia Okker: Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction , Routledge, 2011 (engl.)