Radical democrat of 1848 who made the Hallische Jahrbücher the Young Hegelian organ and edited a journal with Marx in Paris
Born in 1802 at Bergen on Rügen, he joined the Burschenschaft agitation for a free and united Germany and was held in fortress confinement from 1826 to 1830. After teaching at Halle he founded the Hallische Jahrbücher in 1838 and made it the leading critical organ of the Young Hegelians; driven out by censorship and suppression, he went to Paris in 1843 and edited the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher with Marx, parting from him in 1844 over socialism. In 1848 he sat on the far left of the Frankfurt National Assembly; after the defeat he fled to England and from 1850 lived in Brighton as a teacher and writer. From 1866 he backed Bismarck's policy, and from 1877 he drew a German government pension until his death in Brighton in 1880.
Activities and affiliations
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1838–1844
Scholarship and theory
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1848–1849
Frankfurt National Assembly (1848–1849)
Legislature and state representation
Career Timeline
- 1821Entered Halle; joined the Burschenschaft
- 1826–1830Confined in Kolberg fortress for Burschenschaft activity
- 1832Privatdozent at Halle
- 1838–1841Founded and edited the Hallische Jahrbücher
- 1841–1843Edited the Deutsche Jahrbücher in Dresden
- 1843–1844Edited the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher with Marx in Paris
- 1848–1849Frankfurt National Assembly (far left); published Die Reform
- 1849Exile in London
- 1850–1880Teacher and writer in Brighton
- 1877German government pension