KARL BLIND

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2116, 26 June 1907, Page 1

KARL BLIND

Karl BlimJ. whoso death was- recently reported, was horn at Mannheim, September 4, 1826. Ho came forward;? even during bis studies at the University <j£ Heidelberg, as an active agitator in the movements which led_to the' revolution of 1848. Having participated in the ’rising led by Hooker, and boon wounded, lie fled to Strasburg; but returned and fought in' the: rising commanded by Struve in'the autumn of that vealin the Black Eorest. A prisoner and condemned to eight years’ imprisonment after judicial proceedings which caused much emotion, he was forcibly set at liberty in 1849 when the people and soldiers of Baden ef-r fected the downfall of the government of the Grand Duke. Sent by the newly-constituted popular government with a diplomatic mission to Paris, he was arrested as a supposed participator in Lodru-Rollin’s rising, June 13, 1849, in the interest of the then Roman Republic. Expelled from France, ho lived first in Brussels, then chose London as his permanent residence. Here, or from here, he was in frequent active communication with Mazzini, Garibaldi, and Louis Blanc, and participated in many revolutionary movements. He promoted tlio Schleswig-Holstein moveuumt; and supported the Hungarian effort to secure autonomy, the Polish rising of 1863-64 against Russia, the American Unioii cause, ■ against .-..tbp. Confederacy, tho Italian cause against the Papacy, the Japanese cause against Russia, anjk. tlio Russian movomont for freedom. His comupon current political events were frequent, and many of them have appeared in. English publications. Folklore, and historical studies nave also occupied him much.