1. Henry Boernstein [in Europe, Heinrich Bornstein] was a German revolutionary who served as the publisher of the Anzeiger des Westens in St Louis, Missouri, the oldest German newspaper west of the Mississippi River.
23 Facts About Henry Boernstein
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Henry Boernstein was a political activist, author, soldier, actor and stage manager, and was briefly yet closely acquainted with Karl Marx during his tenure as publisher of the radical newspaper Vorwarts.
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Henry Boernstein played a major role in keeping Missouri in the Union at the start of the Civil War.
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Henry Boernstein's family fled from his native city of Hamburg to Lemberg in Galicia in the Austrian Empire in 1813, due to fighting between allied and French forces.
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Henry Boernstein studied half-heartedly at the University of Lemberg and then read medical literature in Vienna.
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Henry Boernstein acquired a special hostility to the Roman Catholic Church due to being required to attend Catholic catechism despite being a Protestant.
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Henry Boernstein married the Hungarian actress Marie Steltzer on November 13,1829.
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Henry Boernstein became both a successful theatrical entrepreneur and a popular actor.
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Henry Boernstein was a friend of Franz Liszt, Alexandre Dumas and Giacomo Meyerbeer.
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Henry Boernstein managed an Italian opera company in Paris before starting a "translation factory" modifying French drama for performance in German.
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Henry Boernstein remained in Paris, recording political events in France for newspapers that could not afford a reporter there.
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Henry Boernstein was assisted by his perennial co-worker Karl Ludwig Bernays.
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Henry Boernstein wrote articles for Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune as well as for German journals in America such as the Deutsche Schnellpost of New York.
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Henry Boernstein withdrew from the revolutionary movement when socialists insisted on a right to labor.
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Henry Boernstein gave this collection to the St Louis Mercantile Library in 1853, where it remains today.
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Henry Boernstein departed France in January, 1849, after Louis Napoleon was inaugurated as President of the Second Republic.
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Henry Boernstein introduced a sensational journalistic style in his Anzeiger, raising the ire of nativist mobs, led in one case by Ned Buntline.
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At the start of the Civil War, Henry Boernstein's enterprises included a brewery, a hotel, and several saloons.
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Henry Boernstein participated in the arrest of the Missouri State Militia at Camp Jackson on May 10,1861, and wrote a letter to Lincoln with a description of the subsequent shooting of civilians under riot conditions.
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Henry Boernstein served as US Consul in Bremen throughout the Civil War and was only replaced by President Andrew Johnson in 1866.
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Henry Boernstein decided to remain in Europe, since the Anzeiger had been unexpectedly closed.
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Henry Boernstein worked in Vienna for a while as a photographer.
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Henry Boernstein retired in 1878 to Baden bei Wien to write his memoirs; they were published in the Illinois Staatszeitung of Chicago and as a two volume book in two editions, in 1881 and 1884.