1. Hippolyte Havel was an American anarchist who was known as an activist in the United States and part of the radical circle around Emma Goldman in the early 20th century.
13 Facts About Hippolyte Havel
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Hippolyte Havel had been imprisoned as a young man in Austria-Hungary because of his political activities, but made his way to London.
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Hippolyte Havel befriended him and he immigrated to the United States.
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Hippolyte Havel settled in Greenwich Village, New York, a center of radicals, artists, and writers.
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Hippolyte Havel declared the neighborhood to be "a spiritual zone of mind".
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Hippolyte Havel was close friends with Emma Goldman, and became friends with playwright Eugene O'Neill, and various others in the artistic circles.
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Hippolyte Havel became involved in the anarchist movement and in his youth was imprisoned for anarchist activities by the imperial authorities in Austria-Hungary.
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Hippolyte Havel managed to flee to London, where, in November 1899, he met the American anarchist and activist Emma Goldman, who was on a lecture tour.
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Hippolyte Havel traveled with Goldman from Europe to the United States, entered as an immigrant, and settled in Chicago.
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Hippolyte Havel worked for a time in Chicago as the editor of several anarchist publications, including the Chicago Arbeiter Zeitung, which was published in German He later worked as editor on The Revolutionary Almanac, and Revolt.
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Hippolyte Havel wrote a biography of Goldman and an introductory essay to her collected Anarchism and Other Essays.
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Hippolyte Havel contributed dozens of articles and essays to anarchist journals, including Goldman's Mother Earth.
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Hippolyte Havel became friends in that period with the playwright Eugene O'Neill.