Rudolph Lexow
Rudolph Lexow (January 10, 1823 Tönning,[1] Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark – July 16, 1909 New York City) was an American writer and editor.
Biography
[edit]Lexow graduated from the University of Kiel and was active in the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany. He fled to England, where he married Caroline King in Hull,[1] and then traveled on to the United States, where he settled in New York City and founded the Belletristisches Journal in 1852.
Family
[edit]Rudolph and Caroline Lexow were the parents of New York City attorney Charles King Lexow, New York state senator Clarence Lexow, Allan Lexow and Rudolph G. Lexow.[1] Their granddaughter Caroline Lexow Babcock was a prominent suffragist and pacifist.[2]
Works
[edit]He wrote histories of the American Civil War and of the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Carl Schlegel (1918). Schlegel's American Families of German Ancestry. New York: The American Historical Society. p. 225. ISBN 9780806317281. This source reports Lexow's birth year as 1821.
- ^ Harriet Hyman Alonso, The Women's Peace Union and the Outlawry of War (Syracuse University Press 1997): 25. ISBN 0815604173
- "Rudolph Lexow". The New York Times. July 17, 1909.
- Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Philadelphia: Walther's Buchdruckerei. 1909. p. 376.
- Geo. P. Rowell & Co's American Newspaper Directory. 1869. p. 72.
External links
[edit]- Rudolph Lexow (1854). Amerikanische Criminal-Mysterien oder das Leben der Verbrecher in New-York. Vol. 2. Stuttgart and New York: Hallberger'sche Verlagshandlung.
- Rudolph Lexow (1872). Romane und Novellen. Vol. 3, 4. E. Steiger.