Carl Schurz: A Biography

by Hans L. Trefousse

Book Overview

The biography of Carl Schurz is a story of an amazing life. At the age of 19, Schurz, a student at the University of Bonn, became involved in the Revolution of 1848. Participating in the revolutionary army, he managed to escape through a sewer during the siege of Rastatt, flee across the Rhine to France, and come back to rescue his professor, Gottfried Kinkel, from a jail near Berlin. This deed made him famous, and when he came to American in 1852,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823218554
• ISBN13: 9780823218554
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"