Ernest Charles Jones

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Ernest Charles Jones

Ernest Charles Jones (born January 25, 1819 in Berlin , Duchy of Holstein , † January 26, 1869 in Manchester ) was an English writer, poet and lawyer who was politically active in the Chartist movement . The Chartists formed a politico-social movement in England in the first half of the 19th century. In her final phase after 1848, Jones was one of her leaders.

Life

Ernest Jones was born in the Holstein village of Berlin (today a part of the Seedorf community, Segeberg district ), the son of Major Charles Gustavus Jones and Charlotte Matilda Jones , who ran an estate there. One of his godparents was the future King Ernst August of Hanover . He attended the Michaelis High School in Lüneburg . In 1838 he moved to England with his family. In 1836 he became a full servant of the English Court. Member of the Inner Temple Bar Association in 1844 .

In 1846 he joined the Union of the Just and the German Workers' Education Association in London. In 1850 he was elected to the executive branch of the National Charter Association with his friend George Julian Harney .

Jones was arrested in 1848 after giving a political speech and was not released from prison until 1850. Both he and Harney were personally acquainted with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels , and they kept in touch. Marx and Engels commented on the development of the Chartist movement and the work of Jones and Harney in letters and articles. Under Jones and Harney, the Chartist movement took on an increasingly socialist orientation, and Jones saw the movement as part of the proletarian, international movement. However, the actual social importance obviously decreased. Chartism ended as a movement with the last Chartist Convention in 1858. Jones was a member of the Manchester section of the International Workers' Association . Ernest Jones was buried in Ardwick Cemetery , Manchester.

As a writer and poet, Jones also grappled with the issues of political oppression and social injustice. His novels include: The Maid of Warsaw and Woman's Wrongs . Some of his poems, for example The Painter of Florence , The Song of the Poor , The Song of the Day-Laborers and The Factory Slave achieved quite a high profile.

Overall, there was a rich, Chartist literature - some poems were set to music and sung as songs, a large number of poems and novels appeared in the Chartist newspapers, including in the journal Notes to the People founded by Jones in 1851 .

Works

  • Infant effusions . University of Applied Sciences Nestler, Hamburg 1830 digitized
  • The Wood Spirit. A novel . TW Boone, London 1841 Volume 1 digitized
  • Fergus O'Connor, Ernst Charles Jones (Eds.): The Laborer; A monthly magazine of politics, literature, poetry & c. Vol. 1. Northern Star Office, Manchester 1847 Digitized
  • Fergus O'Connor, Ernst Charles Jones (Eds.): The Laborer; A monthly magazine of politics, literature, poetry & c. Vol. 2. Northern Star Office, Manchester 1847 Digitized
  • Fergus O'Connor, Ernst Charles Jones (Eds.): The Laborer; A monthly magazine of politics, literature, poetry & c. Nd. 3. Northern Star Office, Manchester 1848 Digitized
  • Fergus O'Connor, Ernst Charles Jones (Eds.): The Laborer; A monthly magazine of politics, literature, poetry & c. Northern Star Office, Manchester 1848 Digitized
  • Ed .: Notes to the People. The Champion of Political Justice and Universal Right . London May 1851 to 1858 Digitized 1851
  • Co-operation . In: Notes to the People . No. 21 of September 20, 1851
  • Three to One . In: Notes to the People . No. 26 of September 25, 1851
  • What is Kossuth ? In: Notes to the People . No. 31 of November 29, 1851
  • Declaration against Karl Heinzen . Translated by Jenny Marx . London March 3rd 1852 .
  • The Coming Crisis and why It Is Coming . In: Notes to the People . No. 16 of August 21, 1852
  • The Storm's First Thunder . In: Notes to the People . No. 42 of February 19, 1853
  • A Phamphlet on the "Revelations Concerning the Trial of the Communists at Cololone" . In: Notes to the People . No. 47 of March 26, 1853
  • Secret Intrigue of Russian Tools, and Scandalous Doings of "Our" Cabinet in the East . In: Notes to the People . No. 86 of December 24, 1853
  • Different Features of Popular Feeling . In: Notes to the People . No. 103 of April 22, 1854
  • Discoveries Made Too Late . In: Notes to the People . No. 130 of October 28, 1854
  • The Maid of Warsaw, or the Tyrant Czar: a tale of the last Polish Insurrection . London 1854
  • Woman's Wrongs. A series of tales . London 1855
  • Evenings with the People. The Franchise and Taxation, an address . London 1856 digitized
  • Evenings with the people. The unemployed . London 1857
  • The revolut of Hindostan; or the new world. A. poem . Wilson, London 1857
  • Corayda. A Tale of Faith and Chibalry, and other poems . W. Kent & Co., London 1860 Digitized
  • Communist Party of Great Britain History Group Corporation (Ed.): Diary of Ernest Jones 1839-47 . Hammersmith, London 1961 (Our history 21)

literature

  • The Queen against Ernest Jones. Trial of Ernest Charles Jones for sedition and unlawful assembly at the Central Criminal Court before Wilde, CJ, July 10, 1848 . o. O. 1848
  • James Crossley: Ernest Jones. Who is he? What has he done? . A. Heywood, Manchester 1857
  • Wm. Sharman: Reform or revolution. Songs for the March. Dedicated by permission to Ernest Jones, confessor for freedom in 1848. Collected and edited by the Rev. Wm. Sharman, Bradford . F. Farrah, London 1867
  • The life and death of Ernest Jones the Chartist reformer. A memoir . Manchester 1869
  • Ernest Jones . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 6 supplement dated February 6, 1869.
  • Frederick Leary: The Life of Ernest Jones . “Democrat” Publishing Office, London 1887 Digitized
  • Aurelis Basilio Wakefield: Ernest Jones, the People's Friend . Hallifax 1887.
  • David P. Davies: A short sketch of the life and labor of Ernest Jones. Chartist, barrister, and poet to which is added several of his poems . Liverpool 1897.
  • George Douglas Howard Cole : Ernest Jones . In: the same: Chartist portraits . Macmillan, London 1941
  • Charlotte Alice Faber: Ernest Jones and the Chartist movement . University of Wisconsin 1904 digitized
  • Ernest Jones and Chartism c. 1856 . In: International Institute of Social History. Bulletin of the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam . Brill, Leiden 1950 ISSN  1873-0841 Vol. 5.1950, 2 (08), pp. 99-104
  • Ernst Jones. Chartist. Selections from the writings and speeches of Ernest Jones with introd. and notes by John Saville. Lawrence & Wishart, London 1952
  • de J, Fr .: An Open Letter from Ernest Jones to Weydemeyer . In: International Institute of Social History. Bulletin of the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam . Brill, Leiden 1952 ISSN  1873-0841 Vol. 7.1952, 3 (Dec.), pp. 181-189
  • W. Galkin: Ernest Jones . In: EP Kandel (editor): Marx and Engels and the first proletarian revolutionaries . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1965, pp. 456–498.
  • Hans-Jürgen Bochinski: On the India articles by Ernest Jones from 1853 . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels Research 3, Berlin 1978, pp. 37–44
  • Stephan Lieske: The Chartist Leader Ernest Jones. His contribution to the development of a proletarian poetry . Potsdam 1985 (Potsdam, University of Education, Hist.-Phil. Fac., Dis. (A), 1985)
  • Ingolf Neunübel: Marx 'and Engels' influence on Ernest Jones' chartist papers "Notes to the People" and "The People's Paper" (1851/1852) . In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 8, Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1985, pp. 153-187
  • Ingolf Neunübel: About the relationship of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to the Chartist movement in the fifties of the 19th century. Your collaboration with the leader of the revolutionary Chartists Ernest Jones in the struggle for the reorganization of Chartism on a revolutionary basis . Berlin 1986 (Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED, Diss., 1986)
  • Ingolf Neunübel: On some selected questions and problems of the collaboration between Marx and Engels and the leader of the revolutionary Chartists, Ernest Jones, in 1854 . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels Research 22. 1987, pp. 208-217
  • Miles Taylor: Ernest Jones, Chartism and the Romance of Politics, 1819--1869 . Oxford University Press 2003.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptism entry from June 30, 1819 Familysearch
  2. ^ W. Galkin, p. 457.
  3. ^ W. Galkin, p. 460.
  4. ↑ There are 52 letters from Ernest Jones to Marx surviving between 1851 and 1868.
  5. ↑ Eight letters from Ernest Jones to Engels between 1852 and 1867 have survived.
  6. ^ Documents of the First International. 1864-1866 . Lawrence & Wishart, London 1962, pp. 62, 92, 129, 241, 271, 307.
  7. ^ Cemetery Records
  8. ↑ Printed in full in: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe . Department I. Volume 11, pp. 464-469.
  9. ↑ Printed in full in: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe . Department I. Volume 11, pp. 470-472.
  10. ↑ Printed in full in: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe . Department I. Volume 11, pp. 473-477.
  11. ↑ Printed in full in: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe . Department I. Volume 11, pp. 478-479.
  12. ↑ Printed in full in: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe . Department I. Volume 11, pp. 492-494.
  13. ↑ Printed in full in: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe . Department I. Volume 12, pp. 575-578.
  14. ↑ Printed in full in: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe . Department I. Volume 12, p. 579.
  15. ↑ Printed in full in: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe . Department I. Volume 12, pp. 634-636.
  16. ↑ Printed in full in: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe . Department I. Volume 13, pp. 589-591.
  17. ↑ Printed in full in: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe . Department I. Volume 13, pp. 592-595.
  18. ↑ Contributions to Marx-Engels research 8. Berlin 1981, p. 99 No. 427.
  19. ^ In the possession of Karl Marx. (Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe. Department IV. Volume 32, p. 357 No. 640).
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Ernest Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English chartist and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1869
Place of death Manchester