Franz Schneeweiss: A '48er in New Brunswick

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  • F. Gunther Eyck Rutgers University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14713/jrul.v19i2.1346

Keywords:

New Brunswick, Germans in America, Association for the Furtherance of German Sciences, Austria

Abstract

Eyck looks at a collection of papers on and by Franz Schneeweiss, an Austrian immigrant to New Brunswick, New Jersey, held in the Library.  He left Austria after the abortive revolutions of 1848-1849 and arrived the United States in 1851 as a nineteen-year-old deserter from the imperial army of Austria.  He became a promoter of German cullture in America and founded the Association for the Furtherance of German Sciences, whose aims were to deliver and discuss lectures of a scientific nature "with the strictest exclusion of non-Christian tendencies."

Author Biography

F. Gunther Eyck, Rutgers University

Rutgers University Libraries

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Published

2012-05-02

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Vol. 19 No. 2 (1956)

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