Carl Schurz
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Government and Politics, Military History
- Subcategories: Congress, Senate, Senators, House of Representatives, Politicians, Diplomats, Wars, Battles, Media, Journalism, Journalists, American Civil War, Civil Wars, Coups
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, 19th Century European History, German History, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American History 1878-1900
Article abstract: Recognized as a leader of the German-American community in the United States, this partisan of liberty fled Germany after the revolutions of 1848 and made a career as a journalist and politician, serving as a Union general in the Civil War, a senator from Missouri, and a secretary of the interior.
Early Life
Carl Schurz was born to Christian and Marianne (Jüssen) Schurz on March 2, 1829, in one of the outbuildings of a moated castle in the Prussian Rhineland (Germany), where his grandfather worked for Baron Wolf von Metternich. His...
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