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367:; Boernstein was elected colonel of the Second Missouri Volunteer Regiment (of four regiments). Before his election as colonel, his company escorted weapons and ammunition by boat from the Arsenal to Alton, Illinois. He participated in the arrest of the Missouri State Militia at Camp Jackson on May 10, 1861, and wrote a letter to Lincoln with a description of the subsequent shooting of civilians under riot conditions. When Lyon (now a Brigadier General) moved into the interior of Missouri in June, Boernstein commanded the force occupying Jefferson City, the state capital. 31: 742:. ed. and tr. Steven Rowan (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, distributed by Wayne State University Press, 1998) ; German text Heinrich Börnstein, Fünfundsiebzig Jahre in der Alten und Neuen Welt. Memoiren eines Unbedeutenden, 2 vols. (Leipzig, O. Wigand, 1881; 2d ed., 1884; reprint, with an English language preface by Patricia Herminghouse, New York: Peter Lang, 1986). 340:, winning Benton one term in the House of Representatives on behalf of "Benton Democracy." Boernstein became an early supporter of the newly founded Republican Party, and he dramatized the fact that John Frémont was not on the ballot in Missouri in 1856 by having his followers vote for the Know-Nothing presidential candidate 181:
He married the Hungarian actress Marie Steltzer (age 15 years) on November 13, 1829. After a period in Vienna, Boernstein went on tour as an actor to cities in the Austrian Empire such as Budapest, Lubjana, Agram , Trieste and Venice, and he served as supervisor of the municipal theaters in St.
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In the months before Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, political tensions in St. Louis deteriorated into armed confrontation, while pro-Southern elements plotted to seize the United States Arsenal. A military force was organized in the Arsenal in April 1861, under federal auspices by Congressman
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Galizia, now L'viv in Ukraine) in 1813, due to fighting between allied and French forces. He studied half-heartedly at the University of Lemberg and then read medical literature in Vienna. He acquired a special hostility to the Roman Catholic Church due to being required to attend Catholic
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to aid the revolt in Baden. He withdrew from the revolutionary movement when socialists insisted on a right to labor. Throughout the 1848 Revolution in Paris he collected pamphlets and newspapers on the streets every day. He gave this collection to the
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At the start of the Civil War, Boernstein's enterprises included a brewery, a hotel, and several saloons. In 1859 he leased the Variétés Theater in St. Louis and launched it as an opera house. It closed when Boernstein went off to war in 1861.
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ed. Heinrich Börnstein with L. F. C. Bernays, Arnold Ruge, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, facsimile reprint (Leipzig, 1975), pp. V-LVII; on Börnstein's later view of Marx, see Steven Rowan in the "Introduction" to
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Der Herzog von Olonne. Komische Oper in drei Aufzügen. Zum ersten Male aufgeführt in dem Théatre royal de l'opéra comique, am 4. Februar 1842. Die Musik ist von Auber. Nach dem Französischen der Herren Scribe und
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Leben, der Charakter seiner Schriften und seines Strebens. Zum 100jähr. Geburtstage unseres Dichters, 10. Nov. 1859. Vorgetragen von Heinrich Börnstein bei der Schillerfeier in Saint Louis, Missouri
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Pölten and Linz. He became both a successful theatrical entrepreneur and a popular actor. In 1841, he and his wife toured the principal cities of Germany with great success.
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Arien und Gesänge aus: Carlo Broschi. Komische Oper in drei Akten. Nach dem Französischen "La part du diable" de Scribe. Music by Auber. Für die deutsche Bühne bearbeitet
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To promote circulation, he published many prominent European novelists and memoirists of the time as serials, and in 1850 he wrote a sensationalist anti-Jesuit novel,
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Boernstein remained in Paris, recording political events in France for newspapers that could not afford a reporter there. He was assisted by his perennial co-worker
374:, Germany, by President Lincoln, although he returned briefly to St. Louis in 1862 in a vain attempt to save Blair's Congressional seat for the Republican Party. 261: 1012: 404:. He worked in Vienna for a while as a photographer. He retired in 1878 to Baden bei Wien to write his memoirs; they were published in the Illinois 719: 185:
His radical political views enticed him to Paris, and in 1842 he took a German opera company there, which failed to flourish. He was a friend of
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Boernstein's freewheeling methods earned him enemies within the German community as well as among English-speakers. In 1857
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Alfred Vagts, "Heinrich Börnstein, Ex- and Repatriate," Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, 12 (1955/56), 105-27.
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Franciska oder Das Kriegsgericht. Schauspiel in 3 Aufzügen. Nach dem Französischen von Heinrich Börnstein
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After landing in New Orleans, Boernstein passed through St. Louis, Missouri, to the Swiss community of
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of New York. At the time of the February 1848 revolution in Paris, he became president of the
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Currently the major reference, with snippets from Stevens (1915) and Wittke (1952) as noted.
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down early in 1845, expelling or imprisoning most of those associated with the journal.
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After leaving the university, Boerrnstein joined an Austrian army regiment stationed in
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Des Teufels Antheil. Komische Oper in 3 Akten. Nach dem Französischen des Scribe
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After the expiration of three months' federal service, Boernstein was appointed
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Fünfundsiebzig Jahre in der Alten und Neuen Welt. Memoiren eines Unbedeutenden
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in 1853, where it remains today. He departed France in January, 1849, after
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Vorwärts! Pariser Signale aus Kunst, Wissenschaft, Musik und geselligem Leben
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in St. Louis in March, 1850. He soon became its publisher and proprietor.
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Memoirs of a Nobody: The Missouri Years of an Austrian Radical, 1849-1866
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Memoirs of a Nobody: The Missouri Years of an Austrian Radical, 1849-1866
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of Chicago and as a two volume book in two editions, in 1881 and 1884.
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The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War
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district of Vienna. His grave in the Protestant cemetery of Vienna,
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was founded as a competitor for support from "progressive" Germans.
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Boernstein introduced a sensational journalistic style in his
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Mein Mann geht aus! Lustspiel in 2 Aufzügen frei nach Scribe
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Refugees of Revolution: The German Forty-Eighters in America
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in 1866. Boernstein decided to remain in Europe, since the
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throughout the Civil War and was only replaced by President
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Börnstein, Memoiren, vol. 1, pp. 332-54; Walter Schmidt,
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ed. by Heinrich Börnstein. Bd. 1–2, St. Louis, Mo. 1855
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during his tenure as publisher of the radical newspaper
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had been unexpectedly closed. In 1869-71 he leased the
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in Vienna and later reviewed scripts of plays for the
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was inaugurated as President of the Second Republic.
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19th-century American newspaper publishers (people)
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Missouri History Museum. pp. 7–11. 419:, was obliterated by authorities in 1941. 121:, the oldest German newspaper west of the 29: 962:2 Bde. in 1 Bd. Otto Jahnke, Berlin 1870 746:Richard Edwards; Merna Hopewell (1860). 208:Vorwärts! Pariser Deutsche Zeitschrift 980: 953:. Bd. 4. Verlags-Bureau, Hamburg 1868 944:. Bd. 3. Verlags-Bureau, Hamburg 1868 935:. Bd. 2. Verlags-Bureau, Hamburg 1868 926:. Bd. 1. Verlags-Bureau, Hamburg 1868 167:catechism despite being a Protestant. 763:The Germans in the American Civil War 435: 210:. It became the chief mouthpiece of 779:Missouri the center state: 1821–1915 554:Henry Boernstein, Memoirs, 122, 138. 960:Italien in den Jahren 1868 und 1869 411:A street is named after him in the 13: 1048:19th-century American male writers 382:Boernstein served as US Consul in 14: 1059: 1033:19th-century American journalists 733:Wright Series of American fiction 241:. 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United States Consul at Bremen
Hamburg
Vienna
Anzeiger des Westens
St. Louis, Missouri
Mississippi River
political activist
stage manager
Karl Marx
Vorwärts
Hamburg
Lemberg
Austrian
Olmütz
Moravia
Franz Liszt
Alexandre Dumas
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Vorwärts! Pariser Signale aus Kunst, Wissenschaft, Musik und geselligem Leben
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Karl Ludwig Bernays
Arnold Ruge
Heinrich Heine
Karl Ludwig Bernays
Horace Greeley
New-York Tribune
Charles Anderson Dana
Bayard Taylor

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