Rudolph Lexow

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Rudolph Lexow (January 10, 1823 Tönning,^[1] Schleswig-Holstein – July 16, 1909 New York City) was a German-American writer and editor.

Biography

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

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]

Works

He wrote histories of the American Civil War and of the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Carl Schlegel (1918). Schlegel's American Families of German Ancestry. New York: The American Historical Society. p. 225. This source reports Lexow's birth year as 1821.

"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

Rudolph Lexow (1854). Amerikanische Criminal-Mysterien oder das Leben der Verbrecher in New-York 2. Stuttgart and New York: Hallberger'sche Verlagshandlung.
Rudolph Lexow (1872). Romane und Novellen 3, 4. E. Steiger.

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