Of “Puppets and People:” The Revolution of 1848 on Stage

Edward Lasker, German parliamentarian, was born on August 14, 1829, in Jaroczin, a small village in the province of Posen, the Polish area of Prussia. The offspring of an orthodox Jewish family, the young man studied the Talmud and translated Schiller into Hebrew verse. At first he showed a preference for philosophy and mathematics but turned later to history, political science, and law. Influenced by contemporary pre-Marxian socialism, he, together with his fellow students, fought on the barricades during the revolution of 1848. It became clear to him after passing his law examinations that he could not expect an adequate appointment in the civil service of reactionary Prussia.

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Main Currents in Sociological Thought: I - Montesquieu/Comte/Marx/ Tocqueville/ The Sociologists and the Revolution of 1848.

American Sociological Review ◽

10.2307/2090977 ◽

1965 ◽

Vol 30 (6) ◽

pp. 948

Author(s):

Lewis A. Coser ◽

Raymond Aron ◽

Richard Howard ◽

Helen Weaver

Keyword(s):

Sociological Thought ◽

Revolution Of 1848 ◽

The Revolution

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The Politics of Humor: Adolph Glassbrenner and the Rediscovery of the PrussianVormärz(1815–48)

Central European History ◽

10.1017/s0008938900011559 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 29-57

Author(s):

Mary Lee Townsend

Keyword(s):

Folk Culture ◽

West Berlin ◽

Revolution Of 1848 ◽

Political Thinker ◽

The Revolution

In the postwar search for German national heroes, preferably committed democrats, scholars have rediscovered the Berlin wit and journalist Adolph Glassbrenner (1810–76). In the series of exhibitions about Prussia which flooded West Berlin in 1981 Glassbrenner's memorabilia surfaced with regularity. He even merited a small exhibition of his own and a biography in the seriesPreussische Köpfe. Berlin enthusiasts and aficionados of German folk culture praise him as a quaint, local humorist while others, primarily academic Germanists and historians, point to his activities as a liberal opponent of the Prussian state before the revolution of 1848. None of these many admirers would argue, however, that Glassbrenner was a major literary talent or a particularly original political thinker.

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Steven Kale, French Salons. High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, 308 p. ISBN: 0-8018-7729-6. 25 dollars.

Revue d histoire du XIXe siècle ◽

10.4000/rh19.1103 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 153-209

Author(s):

Natalie Petiteau

Keyword(s):

Old Regime ◽

Johns Hopkins University ◽

Revolution Of 1848 ◽

The Revolution

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A Romanian Heroine of British Origin — Maria Rosetti

International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION ◽

10.2478/kbo-2019-0096 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 289-292

Author(s):

Gabriela Mihăilă-Lică

Keyword(s):

Crucial Role ◽

Active Role ◽

The Public ◽

Unitary State ◽

Public Consciousness ◽

Revolution Of 1848 ◽

The Way ◽

The Revolution

Abstract The paper analyses the image of Maria Rosetti, the first female journalist in Romania, one of the personalities that played a crucial role for the outcome of the Revolution of 1848, and the way in which she remained in the public consciousness. Born in Guernsey, Scotland, the sister of the diplomat Effingham Grant and wife of the Romanian revolutionary Constantin Alexandru Rosetti “made the cause of Romania her own“. Despite being a foreigner, through everything she did, Maria Rosetti tried to help her adoptive country evolve and become a modern unitary state. Besides playing an active role in the escape of her husband and of other revolutionaries arrested by the Turks, she was also the mother of eight children (only four survived) in whom she instilled the most fervent patriotism. Last, but not least, the wife of C. A. Rosetti used her literary talent for pedagogical purposes in order to educate the younger generations according to the desiderata of a new Romanian society. Admired by her contemporaries and by her followers, her portrait was immortalized by C. D. Rosenthal in the famous painting “Revolutionary Romania”, becoming a symbol of the love and of the power of sacrifice for her country.

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