Carl Schurz (March 2, 1829 - May 14, 1906) was a German revolutionary, American statesman and reformer, and Union Army general in the American Civil War. His wife, Margarethe Schurz and her sister Berthe von Ronge, were instrumental in establishing the kindergarten system in the United States. During the last twenty years of his life, Schurz was perhaps the most prominent Independent in American politics, … Wikipedia
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Carl Schurz (1829-1906), German American statesman and reformer, was born in Liblar, near Cologne , on the 2nd of March 1829, the son of a school-teacher. He studied in the Jesuit Gymnasium of Cologne in 1840-1846, and then entered the University of Bonn www.1911encyclopedia.org/Carl_Schurz
Carl Schurz was born at Liblar, Prussia, 1829. He was educated in the gymnasium of Cologne, and the University of Bonne. He entered the revolutionary army in 1848, and was likewise the editor of a revolutionary paper. He was obliged to flee to Switzerl www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/WER1027.html
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906, American political leader, b. Germany. He studied at the Univ. of Bonn and participated in the revolutionary uprisings of 1848-49 in Germany. Compelled to flee to Zurich after the collapse of the movement, he finally emigrated www.tommcmahon.net/2005/07/carl_schurz_wis.html
While a student in Bonn, Schurz joined what would become the German revolutionary movement of 1848. He participated in the rebellions in the Rhineland, the Palatinate and in Baden. After the defeat at Rastatt, Schurz escaped via Strasbourg to Switzerlan www.watertownhistory.org/Articles/CarlSchurz.htm
In 1867, Schurz became editor of the Westliche Post in St. Louis. He then served as the temporary chairman of the Republican Convention of 1868. Admired for his eloquence and political acumen, Schurz was elected United States Senator from Missouri in 18 www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_his...
Schurz, Carl (1829-1906), a German-born American reformer, public official, and journalist. He is regarded as one of the great American statesmen of foreign birth. During an age when corruption was commonplace, he was an influential champion of social a history.howstuffworks.com/american-civil-war/carl-schurz.htm
Carl Schurz studied Latin and Greek in high school in Germany. During his university entrance exams in 1847, he impressed his examiners because he knew the entire sixth book of Homer's Iliad by heart. As a student of history at Bonn University, Carl Sch www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/VIPs/schurz.html
Carl Schurz'S life has been one of action, adventure, and romance. Born March 2d, 1829, at Libler, near the city of Cologne, Germany, he pursued a full course of studies at the gymnasium of that city, and, in 1846, became a student of the great Universit www.all-biographies.com/politicians/carl_schurz.htm
