Hans Blum (8 June 1841 – 30 January 1910) was a German

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and writer.

Biography

Born Johann Georg Maximillian Blum in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

, he was a son of

Robert Blum Robert Blum (10 November 1807 – 9 November 1848) was a German democratic politician, publicist, poet, publisher, revolutionist and member of the National Assembly of 1848. In his fight for a strong, unified Germany he opposed ethnocentrism a ...

, and was educated in the universities of

and Bern, sat in the North German Reichstag 1867–1870, and was a barrister in Leipzig 1869–1897. In the Franco-Prussian War he served in the field as correspondent for ''Daheim'' and edited the ''Grenzboten'' from 1871 to 1879. He wrote extensively on contemporary politics and among his works are ''Die Lügen unserer Socialdemokratie'' (The lies of our social democracy; 1891), ''Fürst Bismarck und seine Zeit'' (Prince Bismarck and his times; 1894–1895), ''Das erste Vierteljahrhundert des deutschen Reichs'' (The first quarter century of the German Empire; 1896), ''Persönliche Erinnerungen an den Fürsten Bismarck'' (Personal recollections of Prince Bismarck; 1910), ''Aus dem tollen Jahr'' (dealing with the

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; 1901), dramas, short stories and novels, of which ''Bernhard von Weimar'' is the most remarkable. Hans Blum married Anna Fischer on 8 August 1865 in Rheinfelden, Germany. They had five children; Gertrude, Adele, Kurt, Walter, and Anna. Blum died in Rheinfelden in 1910.

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* * 1841 births 1910 deaths German male journalists German journalists Leipzig University alumni University of Bern alumni German male writers Members of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation {{Germany-journalist-stub