Reinhold Solger

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Reinhold Carl Ernst Friedrich Solger (born July 5, 1817 in Stettin , † January 11, 1866 in Washington ) was a German-American politician, scholar and writer.

Life

Reinhold Solger was a nephew of the philosopher Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger . He attended the grammar school in Züllichau . From the spring of 1837 he studied theology and philosophy at the University of Halle under Heinrich Leo and from 1840 the University of Greifswald . During his studies he became a member of the old Halle fraternity in 1839 . As a member of the Corps Marchia Halle (1839) and Guestfalia Greifswald (1840) he was one of the founders of Borussia Greifswald , which later awarded him honorary membership. In 1842 he graduated from the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. He served as an administrative officer in Potsdam .

In 1843 he stayed in Liverpool as a tutor. In 1844 he went to Paris , where he associated with Herz , Herwegh and Bernays , as well as with Bakunin . He experienced the February Revolution of 1848 in Paris. In April 1848 he returned to Berlin and joined the " Democratic Club ". He was a member until the violent dissolution of the Prussian National Assembly on November 14, 1848. Because of his participation in the revolution in Baden as Ludwik Mierosławski's secretary , Solger had to leave Prussia as he was threatened with imprisonment . In December 1849 the Prussian Kreuz-Zeitung spread the rumor that he was the "Red Republican emissary Saulis" who was doing propaganda for France. It did not fall under the Prussian general amnesty until 1862 .

His escape took him via Switzerland from Bern and Zurich to Paris and London . In London he was associated with Charles Dickens , Thomas Carlyle , Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Gottfried Kinkel . In 1853 he emigrated to the United States of America . As a history professor , he gave numerous lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston between 1857 and 1859 . In 1859 he became an American citizen. He was one of the prominent representatives of the so-called Forty-Eighters and used to associate with Carl Schurz and Friedrich Kapp . The Governor of the State of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew wrote: "Solger certainly did as much [for the election of Lincoln] to win the support of the Germans in the East for the Republican cause, like his compatriot Carl Schurz in the East". In 1862, Solger was proposed to General Franz Sigel and others as a professor for the West Point Military Academy . In Washington DC he took up the post of Secretary of State in the United States Department of the Treasury on the proposal of Abraham Lincoln in May 1863. His life ended in a stroke on January 11, 1866. He was buried in the Congressional Cemetery on January 13, 1866.

His best-known work is the novel Anton in Amerika , which first appeared in 1862 in the New York Criminal Newspaper and Belletristic Journal . He dedicated his book to Johann Bernhard Stallo and Friedrich Kapp.

According to the 1855 census in Massachusetts, he was married to Adéle Marie Bèmere (* 1828), they were married on February 18, 1848 in Paris, and had three children: Lucy Marie Solger (* December 24, 1848 in Frankfurt am Main ), Julius Solger (* 1852 in Bradford , Yorkshire ) and Juliet Solger (* March 20, 1855 in Roxbury , Massachusetts).

Works

  • Poems . In: German Musenalmanach for 1840 . Edited by Theodor Echtermeyer and Arnold Ruge . M. Simion, Berlin 1840, pp. 264-265. Digitized
  • The story of Hanns von Katzenfingen, the Prussian lieutenant in the guard. A fragment . In commission of the association's printing house, Berlin 1848.
  • The French Republic. History of the memorable days of February 1848 . In: The new time. Representation of world events since 1848 . Otto Wigand, Leipzig and Vienna 1848, pp. 9–56. Digitized
  • The Reichstag professor. Posse in one act . In: Quarterly journal for applied book science . Max Harrwitz 1919, vol. 2 (1919) pp. 51-81.
  • We . In: German monthly for politics, science, art and life . Edited by Adolph Kolatschek . Bremen 1851, pp. 241-254. Digitized
  • Who's to blame? Novella by Alexander Hearts. Translated from the Russian by Dr. W. Wolfsohn . In: In: German monthly for politics, science, art and life . Edited by Adolph Kolatschek. Bremen 1851, pp. 366-375. books.google.de
  • States system of Europe. Being a course of lectures exposing modern functionary-ism and diplomacy . R. Theobald, London 1854. books.google.de
  • Speeches by Dr. Reinhold Solger and Dr. Friedrich Hedge on Schiller's centenary birthday in Boston, November 10, 1859 . H. Vossnack, Boston 1859.
    • Dr. R. Solger's prize poem at the celebration of the centennial birthday of Frederick Schiller . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1859.
  • Anton in America. Side piece to Freytag's “ Debit and Credit ”. From German-American life . 2 volumes. CM Roskowski, Bromberg 1862. First volume digitized Second volume digitized
    • Anton in America. Novella from German-American life . First part. E. Steiger, New York 1872. (German-American Library, Volume 1) Digitized
    • Anton in America. Novella from German-American life . Second part. E. Steiger, New York 1872. (German-American Library, Volume 2) Digitized
  • The crisis in the United States . In: German year books for politics . Volume 4. 1862, pp. 389-424. books.google.de
  • Memorial on the Schleswig-Holstein question. Addressed to Bradford R. Wood , Minister to the Court of Denmark, Copenhagen . Baker & Godwin, New York 1862.
  • Berthold Auerbach ’s people's calendar for the year 1863. With contributions by Gottfried Keller , Berthold Sigismund, Reinhold Solger, Rudolf Virchow and others. a. Ernst Keil, Leipzig 1863.
  • J. Roemer: Polyglot reader, and guide for translation: consisting of a series of English extracts, with their translation into French, German, Spanish, and Italian. The several parts designed to serve as mutual keys. Germany translation by Reinhold Solger . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1865. Digitized

literature

  • (Arnold Ruge): The political poets of our time. A monument with portraits and brief historical characteristics . Publishing office (Arnold Ruge), Leipzig 1847.
  • mmr : A German-American novel . In: Deutsches Museum , magazine for literature, art and public life . Edited by Robert Prutz . 1863, pp. 704-706.
  • A side piece to Freytag's “Debit and Credit” . In: Orion. Monthly magazine for literature and art . Edited by Adolf Strodtmann . Hamburg 1863, pp. 56-61. books.google.de - archive.org
  • Erich Ebermayer: Anton in America. Novel. Freely edited after Reinhold Solger . JM Spaeth, Berlin 1928.
  • Milton Allan Dickie: Reinhold Solger (Phil. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh ) 1930.
  • Solger, Reinhold . In: Wilhelm Kosch : Biographisches Staats Handbuch . Lexicon of politics, press and journalism . Continued by Eugen Kuri. Second volume. A. Francke Verlag, Bern and Munich 1963, p. 1114.
  • Adolf Edward Zucker: Solger, Reinhold Ernst Friedrich Karl . In: Dictionary of American Biography . IX, Part 1. New York 1963, 392-393.
  • Lynne Tatlock, Matt Erlin, eds .: German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Reception, Adaptation, Transformation . Camden House, Rochester NY 2005 (Proceedings of a conference entitled "Transfer Effects: Appropriations of German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America," which took place at Washington University in St. Louis in April 2004.)
  • Lorie A. Vanchena: From Domestic Farce to Abolitionist Satire. Reinhold Solger's Reframing of the Union (1860) . In: German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Reception, Adaptation, Transformation . Ed. and introd. by Lynne Tatlock. Rochester NY 2005, pp. 289-316.
  • Florian Krobb: 150 years of debit and credit. Studies on Gustav Freytag's controversial novel. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-8260-2714-0 .
  • Markus Ophälders:  Solger. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 550 ( digitized version ).
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 452-453.
  • Friedrich Kapp: Reinhold Solger . In: German-American monthly books . 1866. books.google.de - archive.org
  • Pioneers of Germanness in the Far West . In: The Gazebo . Issue 38, 1866, pp. 597 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst Reinhold Solger  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Kapp: From and about America. Julia Springer, Berlin 1876, p. 356. Adolf Edward Zucker Adolf inadvertently mentions July 17, 1817 as his date of birth.
  2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 99 , 18; 91 , 22; 90 , 19th
  3. ↑ Bakunin to Reinhold Solger October 14, 1844. In: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas , Volume 8. 1960, p. 81. Bakunin to Reinhold Solger, November 29, 1861 (Library of Congress (Washington), Manuscript Division, Papers of Reinhold Solger )
  4. ↑ Judgment of the Higher Appeal Court of the Kingdom, as a court of cassation and revision for the Palatinate in Munich of November 25, 1850 in the criminal investigation against 333 accused of armed rebellion, treason, assassination . 1850, pp. 6 and 26. - archive.org
  5. ↑ Regensburger Zeitung , No. 341, December 10, 1849. - archive.org
  6. ^ Friedrich Kapp: Reinhold Solger , p. 185.
  7. ↑ FamilySearch
  8. ^ Eitel Wolf Dobert: German Democrats in America. The forty-eight and their writings . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1958, 204.
  9. ^ The Congressional Globe, May 8, 1862.
  10. ↑ Milton Allan Dickie: Reinhold Solger , p. 61.
  11. ↑ clean Holger Solger: Anton in America. A novel from German-American life . Edited by Lorie A. Vanchena. Long. New York 2006, ISBN 0-8204-7847-4 , p. XXII.
  12. ↑ FamilySearch
  13. ↑ Excerpt from it printed. Adolf Stern : Fifty Years of German Poetry. 1820 to 1870 . Leipzig 1871, pp. 457-462.
  14. ↑ Originally published in 1850.
  15. ^ Republished in: Horst Denkler (Hrsg.): Der deutsche Michel - Revolutionary Comedies of the Forty-Eight . Philipp-Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1971. (Universal Library No. 9300-05)
  16. ↑ See also Lorie A. Vanchena: Reinhold Solgers Roman Anton in America. Transatlantic interpretations of the American experience .
personal data
SURNAME Solger, Reinhold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solger, Reinhold Carl Ernst Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American writer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1866
Place of death Washington