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Robert Blum as a revolutionary in Vienna Blum, Robert, publicist, lexicographer, theater employee and revolutionary, as a folk hero shot in Vienna under the law (1807-1848). Two. Letters from the U.S. "Blum". 2 S. Gr. 4to and cross 8vo. Vienna 20.X and 23.X.1848. In the midst of the Viennese revolution to a friend in the Saxon Ministry of Justice with the request for support. "... I would ask you to forgive this abuse of the ministerial address with the fact that there is no way to send letters in any other way. For this, I also give you the right to read the letter to Vogt; i.e. I give the man the right, the minister the content does not concern ... Since the letter to Vogt contains all that is to be written about the local conditions, I add nothing here, except the assurance of the most profound gratitude for the pleasing mediation that I presume, and the willingness to any counter-services if I should be able to do so ["Vienna, 20. October evening'] ... Once again, I need your address, dear friend, and please send all my wife's content after you have read it so that she too can see how we are doing. Hopefully, news will not be unwelcome to you, now that v. Könneritz is gone, and I will give you these in the same way ... 1. Clock. Just the cannons thunder again; it seems again from Auersperg. We have just received 18 hours of reflection. bon!" [Vienna 23.X.1848]. - The Saxon Minister of Justice Julius Traugott von Könneritz had been overthrown in March and left the state service. - 17 days after the second of the letters here Robert Blum was shot in the Brigittenau under the law. - Valuable Supplements: 3 hands, detailed letters (in addition to 71/2 p.) by Blum's wife Eugenie Blum to the Saxon Minister of the Interior Martin Gotthard Oberländer with the request to work for the publication of the last letter from Blum to his family and then also for the transfer of the body to Leipzig. "... The heartfelt service you have shown to me, the wife of the so humiliating killing of Dahing by your honored letter, entitles me to the most earnest request to secure the last lines of my husband by your important influence. ==References====External links==* Official website November 10 days past, I am not yet in possession of this their legacy. All the papers and newspapers speak of the last soulful words of the mistress for freedom and still I look forward to the hour of the final arrival of the letter! And that Blum still dedicates his last minutes to the distant wife, the orphaned children, guarantees me the heartfelt love with which he always surrounded his own, near and far. Fröbel himself, helped me not only during his journey to Frankfurt that a lieutenant name Pokorny said letter was handed in by the murdered one with the order to send it to me and at the same time to C. Vogt nach Frankfurt a faithful report about the last hour of his life ..." [Leipzig 19.XI.1848]. - Also the two other letters Eugenie Blums to the Saxon "Revolutionary Minister" deal with these issues. - Your letter of 21. In addition, a letter and a postcard (Rheinfelden 1906) by Hans Blum, the son and biographer of the revolutionary, to the autograph collector Hermann Kievy, accompanied by a letter from one of Robert Blum's closest friends, Friedrich Anton Krantsky, who is also working for the transfer of the remains of Blum to Leipzig. concerning letters of Robert Blums. - In addition a newspaper advertisement and a wood engraving portrait Robert Blum. - Together 10 parts.
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Blum, Robert — 2 letters + valuable supplements. Vienna 1848
2 letters by Robert Blum with valuable supplements from Vienna, 1848.
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1.200 €
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Price checked 26/09/2026, 11:58:39
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- 2462
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- Berlin, DE
- Lot Ends
- 8 Oct 2026, 23:59:59
- Auction Ends
- 8 Oct 2026, 23:59:59
- Lots in Auction
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