Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray
Hippolyte Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray (born November 24, 1838 in Toulouse , † January 25, 1901 in Paris ) was a journalist and participant in the Paris Commune . Sources on his life are sparse.
Life
Lissagaray describes himself as belonging to the group of bourgeois democrats, the neo- Jacobins . Lissagaray came to Paris in 1860 at the age of 22. There he worked as an oppositional journalist and attacked the German Empire. He received several prison terms, one year in the summer of 1870, but escaped arrest by fleeing to Brussels. During the first defeats in the war, he returned to Paris. For a while he was a commissioner in the Southwest Army. After the workers' revolution he hurried to Paris, where he made himself available to the Commune by writing and fighting. Between May 17th and 24th he published the 'People's Tribune', in which he called the fight to the extreme. Until May 28th he himself stood on the barricades. After the fall of the Commune, he managed to escape to London, where he met Karl Marx , who encouraged him to write down the history of the Commune.
The 17 year old daughter of Marx, Eleanor , fell in love with Lissagaray and became engaged to him against the opposition of her parents; the engagement was dissolved in 1882. She translated his story of the Paris Commune into English. He lived in London for nine years, getting by with newspaper articles and private lessons. After the amnesty in 1880 he returned to Paris, fought against the church and monarchists and is said to have intrigued against Paul Lafargue , Marx's son-in-law.
Works
- Histoire de la Commune de 1871 by Lissagaray . Henri Kistemaekers, Bruxelles 1876.
- History of the Commune of 1871. From Lissagaray. Authorized German edition based on the French original completed by the author . W. Bracke jr., Braunschweig 1877.
- History of the Commune of 1871. Translated from the French of Lissagaray by Eleanor Marx Aveling . Reeves / Turner, London 1886 New York 1898 Digitized
- Prosper Lissagaray: History of the Commune from 1871. Illustrated edition. With an addendum: The prehistory and the internal driving forces of Stanislaus Mendelson's commune . 2., by the author. Edition, JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1894. Third illustrated edition, 1904 digitized
- Hippolyte Prosper Olivier Lissagaray: The Paris Commune Uprising. With a foreword by KH Wolf and an appendix: Letters from Karl to Jenny Marx about the commune. Sociological Publishing House / Malik, Berlin 1931.
- Prosper Lissagaray: History of the Commune from 1871 . New ed. v. Trust Feigl. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1956.
- PO Lissagaray: History of the Commune from 1871 . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a. M. 1971 (edition suhrkamp 577)
literature
- René Bidouze: Lissagaray, la plume et l'épée . Editions ouvrières, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7082-28079-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray in the catalog of the German National Library
- northwestern library
- Portraits of the Paris Commune
- Siegfried Lokatis : The Lissagaray case. In: Berliner Zeitung . April 29, 2003, accessed June 10, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lissagaray, Prosper-Olivier |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lissagaray, Hippolyte Prosper Olivier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French journalist and participant in the Paris Commune |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toulouse |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 1901 |
| Place of death | Paris |