Friedrich Lexow
Friedrich Lexow (born January 29, 1827 in Tönning , † December 3, 1872 in New York ) was a German-American writer, journalist and poet.
Life
He was the cousin of Rudolf Lexow (1829-1909).
Friedrich was a supporter of the revolution of 1848 and had published the newspaper Das Volk in Rendsburg (with Harro Harring ). After the failed revolution, he was arrested. He was initially sentenced to eight years in prison and then pardoned to one year in prison . After his release he came to America in 1853 to his cousin Rudolf, who was the editor of the fiction journal there. Friedrich came to the editorial office of the Criminal Zeitung . He added the fiction journal and a political review. From there the newspaper was called the New York Criminal Newspaper and the Belletristic Journal .
After his death, Rudolf Lexow continued to run the newspaper.
Works
In addition to many newspaper articles u. a. for the magazine Deutsche Monats-Hefte: German-American magazine for literature, art and society articles were published by him in Germany, for example in Die Gartenlaube .
- Novellistic: On the Geierfels , Volume 1
- Novellistic: Imperia , Volume 2
- Novellistic: Noble and Low , Volume 3
- Friedrich Lexow: Erin in New York . In: The Gazebo . Issue 20, 1866, pp. 318-319 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
literature
- Daniel Nagel: From Republican Germans to German-American Republicans . P. 579 f.
- Das Buch der Deutschen in America , p. 376, digitized
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Lexow in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lexow, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American writer, journalist and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toenning |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 3, 1872 |
| Place of death | new York |