Karl Ludwig Bernays

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Karl Ludwig Bernays (born November 21, 1815 in Mainz , † June 22, 1876 in St. Louis ( Missouri )) was a German journalist .

Life

Bernays was the son of the Jewish businessman Klemenz Bernays and his wife Theres Kreuznach (Creizenach) and was named Lazarus. In 1818 the family moved to Oggersheim , where they had acquired an estate. Bernays spent his school days in Oggersheim at the Catholic elementary school. He then attended the Protestant grammar school in Frankfurt (today Lessing grammar school) and graduated from the Latin grammar school in Speyer (today grammar school at the Kaiserdom) with the Abitur. Bernays was baptized Protestant in Speyer in 1834. The family lived in Frankenthal since 1832. Following his school days, Bernays began to study law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich ; later he moved to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . Bernays completed his studies with a doctorate in 1844 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Immediately afterwards, Bernays became a journalist for Vorwärts! that appeared in Paris . Bernays went to Vienna with his colleague Heinrich Börnstein . Bernays was an employee of Karl Marx at the magazines Rheinische Zeitung , Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher and the Deutsche-Brusser-Zeitung , and he also corresponded for the Deutsche Schnellpost in New York. In Vienna, Bernays and Börnstein were involved in the March Revolution and therefore fled to the USA, where they are known under the Americanized names Charles Louis Bernays and Henry Boernstein, respectively.

Because of the cholera outbreak in St. Louis , Missouri , they first settled in Highland , Illinois , where Bernays temporarily worked as a merchant and brewer. When in 1849 Börnstein was able to buy the German-language newspaper " Anzeiger des Westens " published in St. Louis , they relocated there, and Bernays took up his journalistic activities as editor of this magazine. Contemporaries he was considered one of the best journalists of the forty-eight . Among many others, Otto Ruppius also wrote for “Anzeiger”.

Bernays made friends with Abraham Lincoln during this time and supported his work. Shortly after President Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861, he sent Bernays to Zurich ( Switzerland ) as consul . Bernays returned to the USA in 1862 and worked again as a journalist. Through political articles and speeches, Bernays tried to win over German immigrants to the interests of the northern states.

Around 1870 Bernays withdrew into private life and began to write his autobiography. Due to illness, he was unable to finish and publish this work.

Karl Ludwig B. was married to the singer and dancer Josephine ("Pepi") Bernays, née Wolf. They had a daughter Theresa (* 1850, also: Teressa), who married the violinist, orchestra conductor and music teacher Ernst Spiering (* 1845), who was born in Lübeck. From the marriage of his daughter come the violinist Theodore Bernays Spiering (1871-1925) and the architect Louis Clemens Spiering (1874-1912), who grew up in the grandfather's house on Chambers Street in Old North St. Louis , studied in Germany and in the New world returned. His brother George J. Bernays, a doctor trained in England, lived with his wife Minna (Minni Bertrand Bernays, nee Döring) and their five children in the house next door. The eldest daughter Thekla Bernays (1856–1931), who emulated the journalistic model of her uncle, has erected a literary monument to her brother, the surgeon Augustus Charles Bernays (1854–1907).

Works

  • Germany and its Franconian representative constitutions. 12 hours of patriotic thought. Palatinate 1841. Bensheimer, Mannheim 1841.
  • Stories of shame on the characteristics of the German censor and editor package. Censor Fuchs from Mannheim and the leaders of the servile press. Files collected and commented on the history of the day. Strasbourg 1843 ( books.google.com ).
  • The murder of the Duchess of Praslin. A contribution to the history of the struggle of passions with modern elements of society. Flawyl 1847.
  • Secret final minutes of the Vienna Ministerial Conference of June 12, 1834. (With a closing speech by Metternich) new ed. by Carl Ludwig Bernays. Kichler, Darmstadt 1848.
  • Seventeenth Annual Report of the St. Louis Public Schools Council for the school year ended August 1, 1871. Plate, Olshausen & Co., St. Louis 1871.

literature

  • To Bernays' memory. On the 100th anniversary of the Birthday of the born in Mainz Journalist Karl Ludwig Bernays. In: Western Post. May 12, 1915.
  • Bernays, Charles Louis . In: Gateway. The Magazine of the Missouri History Museum 22 (2002) 3, p. 12.
  • Heinrich Börnstein : 75 years in the old and new world. Lang, New York NY, 1986, ISBN 0-8204-0043-2 (2 volumes, repr. Of the Leipzig edition, 1881).
  • Fritz Braun:  Bernays, Karl Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 105 ( digitized version ).
  • Harry J. Carman: Lincoln and the Patronage. Smith, Gloucester, Mass. 1964.
  • Helmut Hirsch : Karl Ludwig Bernays. An émigré writer working as a US consul in Switzerland. In: Yearbook of the Institute for German History, Tel-Aviv University. Faculty of Humanities. Research Center for History, Institute for German History. Tel Aviv Volume 4, 1975, pp. 147-165.
  • Helmut Hirsch: Karl Ludwig Bernays and the expectation of the revolution before 1848 . Karl Marx House, Trier 1976.
  • Helmut Hirsch: Karl Ludwig Bernays, a friend of Heine, Engels, Marx and Lincoln . In: the same: Freedom-loving Rhinelander . Econ, Düsseldorf Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-430-14693-3 , pp. 153-170.
  • Helmut Hirsch: friend of Heine, Marx, Engels and Lincoln. A biography of Karl Ludwig Bernays. Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2002, ISBN 3-631-34695-6 .
  • Adolph E. Zucker: The Forty-Eighters. Political refugees of the German revolution of 1848. Russell & Russell, New York 1967.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carol S. Porter: Meeting Louis at the Fair. The projects & photographs of Louis Clemens Spiering, World's Fair architect. Virginia Publishing, St. Louis, 2004, ISBN 978-1-891442-22-3 (with portraits of Karl Ludwig Bernays and other family members).
  2. ^ Thekla Bernays: Augustus Charles Bernays. A memoir. Mosby, St. Louis 1912. On the author cf. Thekla Bernays Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis.

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personal data
SURNAME Bernays, Karl Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernays, Charles Louis; Bernays, Lazarus Ferdinand Cölestin (original name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1876
Place of death St. Louis , Missouri