Dead Socialist Watch, #260
Gustav Bergenroth, historian and Saint-Simonian. A ‘48er, he later emigrated to California in 1850 to found an agricultural commune at Pillar Point, 20 miles south of San Francisco, but returned to Europe a year later. He settled in London and became a Tudor historian and an expert on the Spanish state papers of the period. Born in Treuberg, East Prussia, 26 February 1813; died in Madrid, Spain, 13 February 1869.
I wonder when Bergenroth became involved with the Saint-Simonians… in his twenties probably; would the movement have been tolerated in the Prussia of Frederick William III and IV? Anyway someone for me to chase up [sic].
↓ Quote | Posted 16 February, 2007, 1:56 pmYes - early - I got my information from the ODNB: apparently he spent enough time in England to qualify for inclusion.
↓ Quote | Posted 16 February, 2007, 3:03 pm