Ferdinand Wolff (journalist)

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Ferdinand Wolff (born November 7, 1812 in Cologne , † March 8, 1905 in London ) was a German journalist and member of the League of Communists and editor of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung .

Life

Ferdinand Wolff was the son of the Jewish businessman Philipp Wolff and his wife Helena Feist. From autumn 1822 to Easter 1831 he attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne . After graduating from high school, he began to study philosophy in Bonn in the summer semester of 1831 , but was de-registered as a medical student in autumn 1832. In the winter semester of 1833/34 he studied medicine in Munich . In May 1834 he returned to Bonn and left the Bonn University in 1834 or 1835 without official deregistration and studied in 1835 at the Université Libre in Brussels . According to his own statements, he finished his studies without a doctorate. According to another source, he had a PhD. In Paris, where Wolff lived for ten years, he had contact with Louis-Auguste Blanqui . He taught Mathilde Heine and corrected Heinrich Heine's “The North Sea” for the French translation.

In the winter of 1846/47 he met Marx in Brussels and helped him with the publication of the “Misère de la philosophie. Réponse a la philosophie de la misère de M. Proudhon ” because he knew better French than Marx. He himself reviewed the book in the Westphalian Steamboat . In Brussels, Wolff was a member of the "German Workers' Association" and also published articles in the German Brussels newspaper . Since Wilhelm Wolff and Ferdinand Wolff worked together in Brussels , they called their friends "Lupus" and "red Wolff" because of Ferdinand's hair color. On November 7th, Wolff is one of the founding members of the Association Démocratique . When Marx was expelled from Brussels, Wolff traveled with him to Paris on March 4, 1848. In Paris, Wolff was the one who secured the Communists' influence over the Parisian workers.

Wolff became editor of the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung" on June 1, 1848, but lived in Paris until the beginning of July. Wolff wrote more than 170 articles under the correspondence symbol (square). His first article was "The New Journals". Wolff had focused his editorial work on France and the effects of the February Revolution . After the end of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Wolff had to leave Cologne because he was threatened with failing to fulfill his military duties. He went to Paris, corresponded for Hermann Becker's “Westdeutsche Zeitung” , was expelled at the end of 1849 and emigrated to London, where he worked with Marx, Engels and Wilhelm Liebknecht in the Communist League until its dissolution in 1852. He married Eliza Williams on January 27, 1852 in the Old Church, Saint Pancras , London. In 1853 the relationship with Karl Marx broke.

Wolff wrote numerous articles for the " Morgenblatt für educated readers ", for Robert Prutz " Deutsches Museum ", the " Allgemeine Zeitung , Augsburg", " Die Gegenwart " and other magazines. When Wolff moved from London to Blackburn and from there to Oxford is unknown. In the 1881 census, Ferdinand and Liza Wolff lived at 9 Marston Street in Oxford. The age of the wife was given as 63 years. At the end of 1890, Charles Bonnier began an exchange of letters with Friedrich Engels . Wolff died in the presence of his daughter Helen in London "South Street Park Lane 52" to pneumonia .

Quotes

“ Dearest Mr. Heine. (...) Not a Sunday goes by that in our association, in front of a meeting of close to 100 members, your poems are not recited with tremendous applause. (...) You would be doing the association a tremendous service if you gave them explanations about: second volume of your poems, the second volume of your poems, which are no longer available here in Brussels . "

- quoted from Ferdinand Wolff to Heinrich Heine January 14, 1848.

Works (selection)

  • Philosophy et poésie de la pipe . chez l'auteur, Paris 1841.
  • Homer : Homère illustré, traduction nouvelle, accompagnée de notes, par Eugène Baresle, illustrées par A. Tileux et A. Lemud. M. Quérard attribue cette traduction à un Allemand nommé Ferdinand Wolff . 2 vols., Lavigne, Paris 1842.
  • Marx versus Proudhon. In: Westphalian steam boat. 1848, January issue, pp. 7-16; February issue pp. 51–63.
  • Time sketches. In: German Brussels Newspaper. 9 January 1848.
  • The new journals. In: Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Cologne June 15 and June 16, 1848.
  • Bourgeois. (Written before the March Revolution) . In: Neue Rheinische Zeitung . No. 23 of June 23, 1848, pp. 1-2.
  • The pricipe d'ordre. In: Neue Rheinische Zeitung . No. 57 of July 27, 1848.
  • FW: Cologne . In: Neue Rheinische Zeitung . No. 62 of August 1, 1848, p. 1.
  • Fould , Goudchaux , Rothschild . In: In: Neue Rheinische Zeitung. No. 281 of April 25, 1849.
  • Republic or empire. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of July 21, 1849.
  • The lodging houses. In: Morgenblatt for educated readers . Nos. 87 to 90 from April 11 to 15, 1851.
  • The golden fruits of Australia. In: German Museum. Journal of literature, art and public life. Edited by Robert Prutz. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1853 No. 22 of May 26, 1853. Digitized
  • The secret chapter of English household literature. In: German Museum . Journal of literature, art and public life. Edited by Robert Prutz. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1853 No. 28 of July 7, 1853. Digitized
  • The franc and the shilling. A contribution to house economy. In: German Museum. Journal of literature, art and public life. Edited by Robert Prutz. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1853 No. 36 from September 1, 1853. Digitized
  • Primary school education in England. In: German Museum. Journal of literature, art and public life. Edited by Robert Prutz. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1854 No. 14 of April 1, 1854. Digitized
  • A moral painting in the London Art Exhibition. In: German Museum. Journal of literature, art and public life. Edited by Robert Prutz. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1854 No. 28 of July 8, 1854. Digitized
  • The situation and the future of the working classes viewed from the point of view of British conditions. In: The present. Vol. 12, Leipzig 1856, pp. 888-954.
  • Prince Clemens Metternich . In: German year books for politics and literature . J. Guttentag, Berlin 1863, January to March 1863, pp. 75–121. Digitized
  • Bismarck 's right hand . In: The new time . Review of intellectual and public life . 10.1891-92, vol. 1 (1892), No. 15, pp. 465-472. Digitized
  • Bucher , Bismarck and v. Poschinger . In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life . 10.1891-92, 2nd vol. (1892), issue 42, pp. 500-503. Digitized
  • Bucher, Bismarck and v. Poschinger. (Enough). In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 10.1891-92, 2nd vol. (1892), issue 43, pp. 526-530. Digitized
  • Introduction. In: Freiligrath's works in five books. With a selection of his letters and an appendix not yet in d. Editions of published poems . Edited by Walter Heichen . A. Weichert, Berlin 1907, pp. 5-6.
  • Ferdinand Wolff (contemporary and fellow fate of the poet). In: ibid, pp. 145-146.

literature

  • Wilhelm Buchner: Ferdinand Freiligrath. A poet's life in letters. Vol. 2, M. Schauenburg, Lahr 1882, pp. 247 and 470
  • Gerhard Winkler: Wolf (Wolff), Ferdinand. In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 487-488.
  • The League of Communists. Documents and materials . 3 vol., Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970–1984
  • Walter Schmidt: Ferdinand Wolff. On the biography of a communist journalist alongside Marx and Engels in 1848/49. Lecture at the session of the Social Sciences class II on April 22, 1982. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1983 ( session reports of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . G. Social Sciences 1983.3)
  • Walter Schmidt: Editor and correspondent of the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung". Ferdinand Wolff. In: Contributions to the history of the workers' movement, Berlin 1983, issue 2, p. 262 ff.
  • Walter Schmidt (Ed.): Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Articles, correspondence, reports on the French Revolution 1848/49. Reclam, Leipzig 1986
  • Walter Schmidt: Ferdinand Wolff. Colleagues of Marx and Engels in the editorial team of the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung". In: Helmut Bleiber; Walter Schmidt; Rolf Weber (Ed.): Men of the Revolution of 1848 . Vol. II. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1987, pp. 9–52.
  • Association Démocratique, ayant pour but l'union et la fraternité de tous les peuples. An early international democratic association in Brussels 1847–1848 . Edited by Bert Andréas , Jacques Gandjonc and Hans Pelger. Arranged by Helmut Elsner and Elisabeth Neu. Trier 2004, ISBN 3-86077-847-1 .
  • Roland Hoja: "Nobody betrayed the other, remained friends, honest, loyal ...", Heinrich Heine's encounters with left-wing intellectual friends 1848–1856. WVB Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86573-249-1 , pp. 158-161.

Web links

  • Friedrich Engels to Ferdinand Wolff October 1893 Digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ^ North Rhine-Westphalian civil status archive in Brühl, birth certificate 12/1812 Cologne.
  2. ↑ Death certification 216/1905.
  3. ^ Program through which the public examination of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium (...) Cologne 1831, p. 3.
  4. ↑ Walter Schmidt (1987), p. 12, note 20.
  5. ↑ A short series of lectures is being given in Mr. Ball's rooms at St. John's college by Dr. Ferdinand Wolff on 'Economics, politics and philosophy' (...) The lecturer was a collaborator of Marx, Lassalle , and Freiligrath. In: The Oxford Magazin , 1885, p. 392.
  6. ↑ Walter Schmidt (1987), p. 13.
  7. ↑ Ferdinand Wolff to Friedrich Engels June 28, 1892. IISG Marx Engels estate L 6399.
  8. ^ Association Démocratique, p. 329.
  9. ^ The Paris district to the central authority of the League of Communists in Cologne on April 30, 1848.
  10. ↑ a b Familysearch.com
  11. ↑ There are six letters from Wolff to Cotta'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung and nine letters from the latter to Wolff in the German Literature Archive, Marbach.
  12. ^ Letter from Robert Prutz to Wolff dated June 24, 1853 in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich.
  13. ↑ 28 letters from Wolff to Engels and a letter from Engels to Wolff.
  14. ^ The letter to Heinrich Heine digitized
  15. ↑ a b Whether this book from this was written Ferdinand Wolff is not sure
  16. ↑ THE article is provided with its full name. At the end of the article it says: The end follows. A sequel did not appear.
  17. ↑ Walter Schmidt (1986), pp. 75-76.
  18. ^ Walter Schmidt (1986), pp. 307-310.
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, member of the Association of Communists
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1905
Place of death London