Schurz, CARL — Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Schurz, CARL, born near Cologne, 2d March 1829, entered Bonn University in 1846, joined Kinkel (q.v.) in the revolutionary movement of 1848-49, and the next year returned from Switzerland and effected his master's escape. In 1852 he passed to the United States, where he speedily engaged in politics, lectured, practised law, and as major-general of volunteers took part in several battles during the civil war. Journalism next engaged his attention till in 1869 he was elected to the United States senate. In 1877 he was made Secretary of the Interior, and from 1880 to 1884 he was once again an editor. Since 1887 he has published Lives of Henry Clay and Lincoln.