Franz Sebastian Seiler (1810
– 4 December 1890) was a German, an associate of
Wilhelm Weitling
Wilhelm Christian Weitling (October 5, 1808 – January 25, 1871) was a German tailor, inventor, radical political activist and one of the first theorists of communism. Weitling gained fame in Europe as a social theorist before he emigrated t ...
, a Swiss reformer.
[Refugees of revolution: the German Forty-eighters in America](_blank)
by Carl Frederick Wittke, 1952. p. 171, 269 He was a journalist on the ''
Rheinische Zeitung
The ''Rheinische Zeitung'' ("Rhenish Newspaper") was a 19th-century German newspaper, edited most famously by Karl Marx. The paper was launched in January 1842 and terminated by Prussian state censorship in March 1843. The paper was eventually su ...
'' and a member of the
Brussels Communist Correspondence Committee in 1846.
Seiler was "a stenographer to the French National Assembly in 1848 and 1849."
Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850
marxengels.public-archive.net He joined the Communist League and took part in the 1848-1849 revolution in Germany. Following the suppression of that revolution, Seiler escaped to London, England in the 1850s. From 1859-1860 he was the editor of the ''Deutsche Zeitung'', and he started a weekly paper in 1860, ''The New Orleans Journal.'' Seiler later worked for Negro suffrage.[Germans of Louisiana]
Ellen C. Merril, 2011
References
External links
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German National Library
* ttp://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85034518/ New Orleans Journal published by Sebastian Seiler
"The famous author of "Kaspar Hauser"
letter by Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...
Kaspar Hauser, der Thronerber Badens
by Sebastian Seiler. Paris, 1845.
Das Complot vom 13. Juni 1849 oder der letzte Sieg der Bourgeoisie in Frankreich: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Gegenwart
by Sebastian Seiler
by Sebastian Seiler
1810 births
1890 deaths
German journalists
German male journalists
Journalists from Louisiana
Writers from New Orleans
German-American Forty-Eighters
German socialists
German revolutionaries
19th-century American journalists
American male journalists
19th-century German writers
19th-century German male writers
19th-century American male writers
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