Gerson Trier

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Gerson Georg Trier. Photo around 1890.

Gerson Georg Trier (born April 23, 1851 in København ; † December 22, 1918 ibid) was a Danish social democrat, journalist , language teacher and translator .

Life

Gerson Trier was the son of the manufactured goods wholesaler Ludvig Meyer Trier (1815–1884) and of Celilie Trier geb. Melchior (1819-1890). In 1869 he graduated from the "Det von Westenske Institute" and then studied Romance languages at the University of Copenhagen . In 1876 he continued his studies in France and graduated in 1876. For the next three years he taught languages in Denmark , trained in a wallpaper factory and began studying chemistry . In 1879 he went to Paris and continued his chemical studies. He found a job in a sugar factory . Later he was an authorized signatory in Paris and in 1883 he headed a department of the Paris trading house in London . He lived in London until 1888 and made contact with Friedrich Engels , with whom he exchanged letters.

At the end of January 1885, Gerson Trier asked Engels for permission to translate The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State . Engels also wrote a foreword for the Danish translation: “Note til danske læser.” In 1888 the translation was published as volume 7 of the “Socialistisk Bibliotek”, which was edited by Emil Wiinblad .

In 1888 he returned to Copenhagen and joined the “Karl Marx” discussion club, which consisted of members of the Socialdemokratisk Forbund , together with the Danish wood turner Nikolaj Lorents Petersen . The two had already met in Paris and London. Both tried in 1889 to send revolutionary representatives of the Danish labor movement to the founding congress of the Second International (July 14-20, 1889 in Paris). For this they wrote various articles in their newspaper Arbejderen, Socialistisk Ugeblad . On November 7, 1890, Trier and Petersen were expelled from the party because of their non-reformist positions at the request of party chairman Peter Knudsen . The weekly Arbejderen, Socialistisk Ugeblad , founded in April 1889 , then became the organ of the Revolutionär Socialistisk Arbejderparti , which also published several works by Friedrich Engels for the first time in Danish.

On November 20, 1891, he married Christiane Hansine Theodora Hansen , who was born on March 23, 1870 in Taarnby on the island of Amager .

In 1901 Gerson Trier and Nikolaj Lorents Petersen were re-accepted into the social democratic party and Trier worked there as "a member of the main board and the program commission". During the First World War, the Danish Social Democrats under Thorvald Stauning entered the bourgeois government. On the other hand, Gerson Trier took a position in 1916 by declaring that he no longer wanted to be a member of a "bourgeois party". He died on December 22, 1918 as a result of a serious illness.

Together with other language teachers, he founded a language seminar in Copenhagen. He worked here until his death in 1918. Occasionally he also published corresponding textbooks.

Works

  • Euchaire Baruël, Gerson Trier: Udvalgte Stykker af den franske literature for 1830 med Anmærkninger . København 1879.
  • Om futurum and conditionalis af det romanske verbum essere . København 1879 (Det phil.-hist. Samf. Mindeskr. I Anl. Af dets 25-haired Virksomhed)
  • Familjens, Privatejendommens og Statens oprindelse. I Tilslutning to Lewis H. Morgans Undersøgelser af Friedrich Engels. Dansk, af Forfatteren gennemgaaet Udgave, besørget af Gerson Trier. Bogtrykkeri, København 1888 (= Socialistisk Bibliotek 7 ) (digitized version ) (2nd edition 1906)
  • Nikolaj Petersen, Gerson Trier (ed.): Arbejderen, Socialistisk Ugeblad . København 1889-1893.
  • Folkeuniversiteter, University extensions. København 1898.
  • English Texts (Science and History) . Copenhagen 1914.
  • A short English grammar . Copenhagen 1915.

literature

  • Trier, Gerson. In: Carl Frederik Bricka (ed.): Dansk biografisk Leksikon . JH Schultz, København 1943, pp. 267-269.
  • Gerd Callesen: Om revolutionær taktik. Correspondence with Friedrich Engels, Gerson Trier and Nicolaj Petersen, 1885–1893. In: Årbog for arbejderbevægelsens historie 3. København 1973, pp. 109–141.
  • Ute Emmrich: comrade in arms of Friedrich Engels and pioneer of the Communist Party of Denmark. In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement. Berlin 1979, No. 1, pp. 120-125.
  • Lene Jeppesen: Gerson Trier (1951–1918). En politisk biografi . Aarhus 1981.
  • Helge Scheuer Nielsen: Ferdinand Møller and Gerson Trier, Socialdemokratiets krise i 1889 . København 2007.
  • Casper Andersen: For arbejderen, universitetet og videnskaben - Gerson Trier and Kristian Erslev i Folkeuniversitetet 1898–1918. In: Slagmark. Tidsskrift for idéhistorie. 2007, No. 50, ISSN  1904-8602 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ute Emmrich, p. 121.
  2. ↑ There are twelve letters from Gerson Trier to Friedrich Engels and two letters from Friedrich Engels to Gerson Trier.
  3. ↑ Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Department I. Volume 29. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-320-00000-4 , p. 803.
  4. ↑ Marx-Engels Complete Edition. Department I. Volume 29. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1990, pp. 119-120.
  5. ↑ Marx-Engels Complete Edition. Department I. Volume 29. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1990, pp. 363-446 and 802-808.
  6. ↑ Ute Emmrich, p. 122.
  7. ↑ Ute Emmrich, p. 122.
  8. ↑ Ute Emmrich, p. 223.
  9. ^ Gerd Callesen: About the distribution of the works of Marx and Engels in Denmark. In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 10. Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-320-00914-1 , p. 350 f.
  10. ↑ Ute Emmrich, p. 121.
  11. ^ Gerd Callesen: About the distribution of the works of Marx and Engels in Denmark. In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 10. Berlin 1987, p. 351.
  12. ^ VI Lenin : Ten Socialist Ministers! In: VI Lenin's works. Volume 23, Berlin 1957, p. 134.
  13. ↑ Ute Emmrich, p. 125.
  14. ^ Gerd Callesen: About the distribution of the works of Marx and Engels in Denmark. In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 10. Berlin 1987, p. 349.
personal data
SURNAME Trier, Gerson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trier, Gerson Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish social democrat, journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1918
Place of death Copenhagen