Title: Memoirs of a nobody
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Austrian Authors, Austrians, Authors, Austrian, Sources, Biography, History, Saint louis (mo.), history, Missouri, biography, Austrians, united states
Places: Missouri, Saint Louis, Saint Louis (Mo.)
People: Heinrich Börnstein (1805-1892)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PT1823.B2 F813 1997