New-York tribune., 1907-06-02
OBITUARY.
THE CAREER OF KARL BLIND.


Word comes by cable from London of the death
of Karl Blind. ar his longtime home in the suburb
OF Hampstead. There is something almost incon-
gruous in the added statement that the end was
'peaceful' of that tempestuous career BY nature
a democrat, early environment made him revolu-
ZIONIST. Failing of permanent success at home, he
threw himself into the struggle for liberty wherever
II was being carried on, either openly a fighter
or secretly 4 plotter, but always actively as a
writer of polemieal pamphlets and of appeals pub
Nshed in the periodical press.
Born in Mannheim Germany, on September 4
1926, he Won gold and silver medals for scholarship
at the iEceumS Of that city and of Carlsruhe, and
then took up the study of Jurisprudence and an
cleht GeFmanic literature at Heidelberg and Bonn.
While still at the university became so prorai-
nent IS an organizer of revolutionary circles among
ms Fellow students, in the gymnastc associations
among Worklngmen. and in the army. that
ne attracted the attention Of the authorities AS
carry as 1876 he was arrested in Baden a charge
OF high treason. At the trial. which followed a
oiIeI term or Imprisonment, he succeeded in obtain
ing an acquittaI, account of lacl, of evidence
me very next year he had exactly similar
peIIehce IN Bavaria. Again in 1SlS. having taken
fis LtsiulLs part in the preparations for national
GlIms GllIntms al CaTiSruhe, ne was arrested while
Geayoring to expand the movement into one for a
fIi -i'f, b CJi,nlomWe2lih i on this occasion he was
isis b;,ri,r Sry success OF the revolution
So DutinS the regime of the Provisional Parlia-
dresses delivered before many mass meetings the
abolition of the princely diet and the election of a
'oI1'l'I'''iS tNtttllNt lllSdSInS III Il
the rising led bv Hecker ne lI, uhiil6 pa5t In
ing refuge in Alstce he continued to carry on an
@siit'uon from there FOR his political principles
Gated in revolutionary uprising in Paris he Was
once more arrested, imprisoned in the fortress at
olraSourg and taken in chains to Switzerland
, milT't me ffe9ch police had planned to turn him
1frtL 70 tne Baden authorities This plot frus
rro, n"reu ~ ihe intervention of vigorous Swiss
mayor, I2kng advantage of his release, thus fort
sane Year T h@ 5oihed with Gu$tave struye the
Of rb m Irii IrG 2l,lSk Forest Fighting as member
a. a. ne StoinlnS OF Staufen. he of the last
tIt ~ itake ule town, and was made a prisoner
only through iiaw in the proclamaton Of martia
ulai to eight years Imprisonment in the fortress
arny of Baden took part, he was freed. the people
I uie4,h5 open The prison at Bruchsal, in which he
On the very day that H. was thus forcibIy re-
Intellectually as il Tned out as3s 'i bo toVn ~
Hastatt; and then entered the capital OF Baden.
the CohTttucnt RsscnSlv wfd ,s,a W4S }GsJned by
DYNASTY Appointed a diplomatic envoy at Paris
arrested. after the rising of Iedru- Roin in viola
uon OF the law Of ma tions Threatened with sur
render 70 the Prussian courts martial unless he
would w sgree 10 2hondoG his claim to be treated
ana: aIter several months OF imprisonment
banished pa from Franco and won't % Belgium where
also made many sacrifices for the popular cause
and had herself suffered imprisonment They soon
was to be had so near their powerful enemies
and Herr Blind and his family took up their per
inanent residence in England from where he still
carried on MS democratic and national German
The amnesty Of 1852 enabled him to revisit his
f1thorlHUd, and while there the House Of Deputies
OF Stuttgart gave dinner for him. When Carl
baldi entered London it was Kari Blind who was
appropriately chosen by the Germans Of the city
10 make address ~ welcome their behalf
He promoted the SchleswiE- IIolste!u movement In
transmitting their confidential Communications to
the British Foreign Office. He was I'm constant
cooperation in England with NaZzini Garibaldi,
I.edTu-R0llin, Louis Blanc and other European
publican leaders. he supported the Hungarian move
meQt for autonomy tho Polish uprising of 1853 and
lNt4 against Russia, when he the head Of the
London cGmmittee the cause of the Union during
the Civil War in this country and that OF tho McE-
lean republic For his active interest in the last
two causes he received the thanks Of President
Lincoln and of PRESIDENT Junroz During the
were accorded TO his country. lie was CON
slstcnty Tor the italian against the PapaCy.
and more recently for the japanese cause against
Russia and for the Russian freedom. In
England he was a member of executive commit
tees on Transyaal Egyptian and other affairs.
lie found time in the intervals OF his political
Politics was, of course. hts first thought. and In
addition to iUnumeroble essays. pamphlets and
tracts he was the author Of Biographies such
men ms Ledru-R Francis Dcak and Frcillgrath.
oey and Germauic and Indian literature by him have
been published In Germany, England, America.
Italy ana Spain. lie eXerted himself bring about
the national testimonial the philosopher FreEer-
great Minncsingcrs, Hans Sachs and Walther Won
der Nogelwcide His stepdaughter, Mathide Blind.
who died in 1896, well known rs a writer OF
verse and a champion Of the political rights OF
while concerned in attempt to assassinate Prime
Bismarck.