Memoirs of a nobody
Subtitle: the Missouri years of an Austrian radical, 1849-1866
By: [by Henry Boernstein] ; translated and edited by Steven Rowan.
Publisher: Missouri Historical Society Press; Distributed by the Wayne State University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: St. Louis; [Detroit, Mich.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Börnstein, Heinrich, 1805-1892.; Authors, Austrian -- 19th century -- Biography.; Austrians -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Biography.; Saint Louis (Mo.) -- History -- Sources.
Description: Radical editor, Republican Party operative, freethinking colleague of Karl Marx - Austrian Henry Boernstein was hardly a "nobody," but his is one of the nineteenth century's great unknown lives.

After leaving Paris following the ill-fated revolutions of 1848, Boernstein became a leader of the large German-speaking immigrant population in 1850s St. Louis. He edited the premier German-speaking newspaper in the region, the Anzeiger des Westens, and played a major role in shaping the complex political landscape of St. Louis before the Civil War.

A friend of such significant Missourians as Thomas Hart Benton, Francis Blair, Jr., and Nathaniel Lyon, he was also a novelist, playwright, director, and actor who eventually led the St. Louis Opera House. He also served as a colonel of volunteers with the Union forces in Missouri early in the war and participated in the Camp Jackson raid in 1861.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"... a translation and edition of roughly half of the two-volume autobiography of Heinrich Börnstein, known in America as Henry Boernstein ..."--Pref.