Georg Christian Stiebeling

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Georg Christian Stiebeling in uniform as a participant in the Northern States in the American Civil War 1861–1862.
Georg Christian Stiebeling (1895).

Johann Georg Christian Stiebeling (born November 6, 1830 in Gedern , Grand Duchy of Hesse ; died June 4, 1895 in New York ) was a German-American doctor , socialist and free thinker .

Life

Georg Christian Stiebeling was born as the ninth child of the innkeeper Georg Christian Stiebeling (1791–1847) and Catherine Margarethe ceilingbach (1791–1863). His great-grandfather Johann Christian Stiebeling (1729–1790) was mayor of Gedern in 1783 .

From the summer semester of 1850 to the summer semester of 1853 he studied medicine at the Ludewigs University of Gießen and from the winter semester of 1853/54 at the Electoral State University of Marburg . There he completed his studies with a dissertation on diabetes mellitus . He emigrated to the United States of America in 1854 . On May 3, 1857, he married Hermine Marie Kreymeyer from Hanover in Jersey City . The marriage resulted in nine children.

In 1857 he was a co-founder of the "German Medical Society" in New York and the German Hospital . At the beginning of the American Civil War 1861 Stiebeling volunteered to the Northern States Army to fight against the slavery and Abraham Lincoln to fight. He served as a doctor in the German "52nd New York Volunteer Infantry" regiment. After an injury, he retired from the military and practiced as a doctor in New York until the end of his life. In 1870 he joined the first international , whose general secretary was Friedrich Adolf Sorge . In his writing Science versus Philosophy , he dealt with the philosophy of Eduard von Hartmann . His first wife Agnes Taubert wrote a reply.

After the dissolution of the First International, Stiebeling wrote for various newspapers for the German socialist press in the USA. In 1876 he joined the Workingmen's Party of the United States (WPUS), a predecessor organization of the Socialist Labor Party . His dispute with the interpretation of became known Friedrich Engels to the rate of profit in the capital of Karl Marx .

According to the death certificate, he died on June 3, 1895 of neurasthenia , pneumonia and "paralysis cordis" (cardiac paralysis) in New York. His body was cremated in the Fresh Pond, Queens crematorium .

Works

Independent publications

  • De diabete mellito . Bruel, Giessen 1854. (digitized version)
  • Science versus philosophy. A refutation of Hartmann's doctrine of the unconscious in the corporeal together with a brief illumination of Darwin's view of instinct . LW Schmidt, New York 1871. (digitized version)
  • About the so-called instinct of the chicken and the duck. Observations and experiments with conclusions . LW Schmidt, New York 1872.
  • A contribution to the history of the International in North America . Print by John C. Möhring, New York 1874. (digitized version)
  • Socialism and darwinism. A critical study . LW Schmidt, New York 1879.
  • Reading book for the people. A concise and easy-to-understand presentation of the most important things from natural science and human studies . H. Nitzsche, New York 1882. (digitized version)
  • The People's Reader. A sketch of man's physical, political, mental and social development in past, present and future . O. Ward, New York 1882.
  • Economic Development in the United States in the Decade 1870-1880 . National Executive Committee of the Socialistic Labor Party, New York 1886. ( Socialistic Library 5)
  • The production and distribution of the produce of labor in the United States . National Executive Committee of the Socialistic Labor Party, New York 1886.
  • The law of value and the profit rate. Easy to understand discussion of some scientific questions. With a polemical foreword . John Heinrich's Volksbuchhandlung, New York 1890. (digitized version)
  • The problem of the average rate of profit. Criticism of a criticism . New York Labor News, New York 1893. (digitized version)
  • Studies on the rates of surplus value and profit with reference to solving the problem of the average rate of profit . New York Labor News, New York 1894. (digitized version)
  • Two letters to Mr. Friedrich Engels in London . Self-published, New York 1895.

Article (selection)

  • On the influence of the compression of capital on wages and the exploitation of labor . The new time . Review of intellectual and public life . Vol. 4 (1886), No. 11, pp. 481-492. (Digitized version)
  • The law of value and the rate of profit. In: The Socialist. New York. Vol. 5, 1889. No. 51, December 21, 1889, p. 2, column 5/6;
  • The law of value and the rate of profit again. In: The Socialist. New York. Born 6. 1890. No. 4, January 25, 1890, p. 3, column 2/3.
  • Open letter to Mr. Friedrich Engels in London. (December 22, 1894). In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. . Born on 13th 1894/1895. Tape. 1. No. 18, pp. 567-569.
  • Open letter to Mr. Friedrich Engels in London. (December 22, 1894). In: Sunday paper of the New Yorker People's Newspaper. Volume 18, No. 7, February 17, 1895.

Letters

  • Georg Christian Stiebeling to Karl Kausky. 5 letters 1886–1888. IISG , Amsterdam. Karl Kausky estate signature: D XXI 453-457.
  • Georg Christian Stiebeling to Friedrich Engels [before November 16, 1882]. SAPMO Library, Berlin. Signature Ma 8971. Handwritten dedication by Stiebeling for Engels.
  • Georg Christian Stiebeling to Friedrich Engels December 22, 1894. Copy RGASPI, Moscow Signature F 1. op. 5. delo 5840.
  • Georg Christian Stiebeling to Friedrich Engels January 1, 1895. IISG, Amsterdam. Marx-Engels estate. Signature L 6029.
  • Georg Christian Stiebeling to Friedrich Engels February 9, 1895. IISG, Amsterdam. Marx-Engels estate. Signature L 6030
  • Georg Christian Stiebeling to Friedrich Engels March 1, 1895. Copy IISG, Amsterdam. Marx-Engels estate. Signature L 6031.

literature

  • Agnes Taubert: Philosophy against scientific arrogance. A reprimand from Dr. med. Geo. Stiebeling and his alleged refutation of Hartmann's theory of the unconscious in the body . Carl Duncker, Berlin 1872. (digitized version)
  • Comment on the essay by Mr. Stiebeling. "On the Influence of the Compression of Capital on Wages and the Exploitation of Labor". In: The new time. Revue of intellectual and public life, vol. 5 (1887), issue 3, pp. 127-133. (Digitized version)
  • Dr. Stiebeling's theory of the effect of capital compression. In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. Vol. 6 (1888), No. 4, pp. 164-169. (Digitized version)
  • Karl Kautsky : On our own behalf. In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. Born 9th 1890/1891. Volume 1. No. 5, pp. 152-154.
  • Friedrich Engels: Foreword. In: The capital. Critique of Political Economy. From Karl Marx. Third volume, first part. Book III: The Entire Process of Capitalist Production. Chapters I to XXVIII. Edited by Friedrich Engels. Otto Meissner, Hamburg 1894, pp. XXIII – XXV. (Digitized version)
  • Dr. G. Stiebeling - The Problem of the Average Rate of Profit. New York 1893 - Studies on the Rates of Surplus Value and Profit. New-York 1894. 29 pp. In: Vorwärts . Berliner Volksblatt . Volume 11, No. 137, June 16, 1894. 2. Supplement. (Review)
  • Karl Kautsky: Review of the editorial team of the "Neue Zeit". to: Geo. C. Stiebeling: Open letter to Mr. Friedrich Engels in London from December 22nd, 1894. In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. Born on 13th 1894/1895. Volume 1. No. 18, pp. 569-571.
  • Death of Dr. Stiebeling. Freethinker, Socialist, Abolitionist and Scholar. A loss for the party. Life and Work of the Deceased. With speech and writing, he championed the cause of the proletariat. In: New Yorker People's Newspaper. June 4, 1895 (digitized version)
  • Alexander Jonas: How George C. Stiebeling died. In: Forward. Weekly New York People's Newspaper. No. 24 of June 15, 1895.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Staff of the Grand Ducal Hessian Ludewigs University Giessen . Giessen 1850, p 27 .
  2. Information from Dr. Carsten Lind, Archive of the Philipps University of Marburg. from October 30, 2014.
  3. De diabete mellito 1854. The doctoral file has not survived . Information from Dr. Carsten Lind, Archive of the Philipps University of Marburg. from October 30, 2014.
  4. George Christian Stiebeling's death certificate
  5. marriage certificate Stiebling / Kreymeyer.
  6. Eduard von Hartmann: Philosophy of the Unconscious . Carl Duncker, Berlin 1869.
  7. Philosophy against scientific arrogance. A reprimand from Dr. med. Geo. Stiebeling and his alleged refutation of Hartmann's theory of the unconscious in the body .
  8. ^ Socialist Labor Party of America (1876-1946) history.
  9. See article (selection).
  10. Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Section II. Volume 15: Karl Marx, Das Kapital. Critique of Political Economy. Third volume. Edited by Friedrich Engels. Hamburg 1894 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2004, p. 931 ff.
  11. Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Section IV. Volume 32: The libraries of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Annotated directory of the determined inventory . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-003425-4 , No. 1280, p. 625.
  12. ^ Opposite to Conrad Schmidt : The average rate of profit based on Marx's law of value . JHW Dietz Verlag, Stuttgart 1889.
  13. Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Section IV. Volume 32: The libraries of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Annotated directory of the determined inventory . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-003425-4 , No. 1278, p. 624.
  14. Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Section IV. Volume 32: The libraries of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Annotated directory of the determined inventory . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-003425-4 , No. 1279, p. 625.
  15. Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Section IV. Volume 32: The libraries of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Annotated directory of the determined inventory . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-003425-4 , No. 1281, p. 625.
  16. ^ The people's reader. A sketch of man's physical, political, mental and social development in past, present and future . O. Ward, New York 1882.
  17. Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Section IV. Volume 32: The libraries of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Annotated directory of the determined inventory . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-003425-4 , No. 1277, p. 624.