Alexander Bran

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Friedrich Alexander Bran , until 1904: Abraham Baruch , (born March 4, 1767 in Stralsund or Rybnik , † September 15, 1831 in Jena or Berlin ) was a German journalist , writer and publisher .

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Bran's early years are not well documented. From 1797 he lived in Hamburg as Abraham Baruch . On April 19, 1811 he changed from the Jewish to the Evangelical Lutheran faith with his baptism in the Sankt Katharinenkirche . Bran opened a bookshop in the Hanseatic city and, with friends, published the weekly Nordische Miszellen . The politically liberal paper appeared from 1804 to 1811. In the newspaper they dealt extensively with European foreign policy. They also dealt with events in Hamburg and the theater landscape. Karl August Varnhagen von Ense and Bran's friends Johann Georg Kerner and Johann Gotthard Reinhold wrote on the sheet .

From 1809 Bran also published the political journal Minerva . He had taken over the paper from Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz and acted as its editor until the end of his life. In 1808 he translated a text by the former Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Ceballos Guerra in which he criticized Napoleon . The documentary was entitled "Authentic representation of the events in Spain from the outbreak of the riots in Aranjuez to the end of the Bayonne junta". The French authorities forbade the reprint and circulation of the script and threatened the death penalty for violations. After Brans magazines were no longer allowed to appear from March 26, 1811, he fled Hamburg. Bran, who was wanted due to the unmasked translation work, first moved to Bohemia and stayed in Leipzig for some time . From 1816 he lived in Jena, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1819.

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  1. ↑ a b so according to Hans-Werner Engels: Bran, Alexander . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 59-60 .
  2. ^ A b so according to Walter Hagemann:  Bran, Friedrich Alexander. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 514 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Bran, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bran, Friedrich Alexander; Bran, Friedrich; Baruch, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Stralsund or Rybnik
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1831
Place of death uncertain: Jena or Berlin