Franz Sebastian Seiler (1810[1] – 4 December 1890[2]) was a German, an associate of Wilhelm Weitling, a Swiss reformer.[3][4] He was a journalist on the Rheinische Zeitung and a member of the Brussels Communist Correspondence Committee in 1846.[1] Seiler was "a stenographer to the French National Assembly in 1848 and 1849."[5] 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,[6] and he started a weekly paper in 1860, The New Orleans Journal.[4] Seiler later worked for Negro suffrage.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Gilbert, Alan (1981). Marx's politics: Communists and citizens. Rutgers University Press. p. 291. ISBN 978-0-8135-0903-7.
- ^ Biographical note contained in the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Volume 38 (International Publishers: New York, 1982) p. 669.
- ^ The German-language press in America, Carl Frederick Wittke, 1957. p. 101
- ^ a b Refugees of revolution: the German Forty-eighters in America, by Carl Frederick Wittke, 1952. p. 171, 269
- ^ Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850, marxengels.public-archive.net
- ^ a b Germans of Louisiana, Ellen C. Merril, 2011
External links
[edit]- Works by or about Sebastian Seiler at the Internet Archive
- Pseudonyms of Sebastian Seiler, German National Library
- New Orleans Journal, published by Sebastian Seiler
- "The famous author of "Kaspar Hauser", letter by Karl Marx
- (in German) Kaspar Hauser, der Thronerber Badens, by Sebastian Seiler. Paris, 1845.
- (in German) Das Complot vom 13. Juni 1849 oder der letzte Sieg der Bourgeoisie in Frankreich: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Gegenwart, by Sebastian Seiler
- (in Dutch) Het complot van 13 juni 1849 of de laatste overwinning van de bourgeoisie in Frankrijk, Een bijdrage aan de hedendaagse geschiedenis, by Sebastian Seiler