Robert Blum Papers 1843, 1848

International Institute of Social History Cruquiusweg 31 1019 AT Amsterdam The Netherlands

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Robert Blum Papers

Collection ID ARCH00061 Creator Blum, Robert Period 1843, 1848 Extent 0.01 m. Language list Language of Material German

Context

Biographical Note Born in Cologne 10 November 1807, died in Vienna 9 November 1848; writer; worked in a theatre in Leipzig until 1844, then became a bookseller; tried to educate the working and lower middle class through various publications and by founding a debating club; political writer, orator and leader of the liberal opposition in Saxony in the 1840s; active in the German Revolution in 1848; founded the Vaterlandsverein; spokesman for the left wing in the Frankfurt parliament; while visiting the Vienna revolutionaries in 1848, together with Julius Fröbel, he was captured, summarily court- martialled and shot; became a martyr for freedom.

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Content and Structure

Content Letter to L. Jackmann 1843, farewell letter to his wife Eugenie Blum 1848; printed material relating to the execution of Blum 1848.

Subjects

Geographic Names Germany

Persons Blum, Eugenie Jackmann, L.

Themes

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Communist movements and parties Socialist and social democrat parties/Socialist International Riots, revolutions and protests

Material Type Archival material

Access and Use

Access Not restricted

Preferred Citation Robert Blum Papers, inventory number ..., International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

Allied Material

Alternative Form Digitized in 2018

Inventory

1 Letter by Robert Blum to L. Jackmann. 1843. 1 letter 2 Farewell letter to his wife Eugenie Blum, written on the day of Robert Blum's excecution. With printed material relating to the execution of Robert Blum's excecution. 1848. 19 pages

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