Author: anonymous [ Bauer, Edgar (1820-1886)]
Title: Schleswig
Description: London, Wertheim, Macintosh & Hunt, 1861. boards. 20x14cm, 55 pp. Contemporary binder's cloth-backed boards. Text entirely in English. No name of author given.. Cover label. Rubber stamp to title. Good. ¶ Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Bibliothek attributes this to Edgar Bauer. [" Edgar Bauer was a German political philosopher and a member of the Young Hegelians. He was the younger brother of Bruno Bauer....German anarchists such as Max Nettlau and Gustav Landauer credited Edgar Bauer with founding the anarchist tradition in Germany. In the mid-1840s, Marx' and Engels' critique of the Bauer brothers marked the beginning of their collaboration and an important stage in the development of Marxist thought. Edgar Bauer participated in the Revolution of 1848.... Other members of his circle were Arnold Ruge, Karl Marx, Max Stirner, Friedrich Engels, Georg Herwegh, Karl Grün, Moses Hess and Mikhail Bakunin. He was especially close to Engels at that time.... Released on the eve of the Revolution of 1848, Edgar Bauer participated in the revolutionary fighting in Berlin and Hamburg. After the defeat of the revolutionaries he went into hiding and then lived under an assumed name in Altona for several years, working as a journalist. During the German- Danish war over Schleswig-Holstein (1848–51), he supported the Danish side. In 1851, facing imminent arrest, he escaped to Denmark and thence to London, England, where he lived in exile for several years. During this time he often met Karl Marx, who was living in London... Disillusioned by the failure of the revolution and alienated from most of his fellow refugees, Bauer became increasingly conservative ( as did his brother Bruno) . From 1852 to 1861 he worked secretly as an informant for the Danish police" - wikipedia].

Keywords: German Political History, Slesvig, Dano-Prussian War, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Denmark, , ,