Friedrich Hassaurek (8 October 1831

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- 3 October 1885

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) was an American journalist and ambassador.

Biography

He attended the Piaristen gymnasium. In the German revolutions of 1848, he served in the student legion, and was twice wounded. After the failure of the

Vienna Rebellion The Vienna Uprising or October Revolution (, or ) of October 1848 was the last uprising in the Austrian Revolution of 1848. On 6 October 1848, as the troops of the Austrian Empire were preparing to leave Vienna to suppress the Hungarian Revolu ...

in 1848, he came to the United States, settled in

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, and engaged in journalism, politics, and the practice of law. Hassaurek was prominent among campaigners for

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during the

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. In

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, to gain a hearing, he appealed to the hospitality of the people. In

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, he threatened to stay a month and try night after night until given a chance to speak. At another time, being abused and pelted with stones and missiles of all kinds, he laid down a revolver, and threatened to shoot any one that advanced upon him. Having thus intimidated the rough element, he was permitted to speak.Albert B. Faust, ''The German Element in the United States'' (2 vols.), Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909, vol. 2, p. 131. On his non-career appointment by Lincoln as U. S. minister to Ecuador, Hassaurek went to thank the President “for appointing him to the highest position the administration had the power to give.” (The capital city of Ecuador,

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, is over above sea level.) He served as minister from 1861 to 1865. In 1865, he became editor of the

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''Volksblatt''. He was a Liberal Republican for

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in 1872, and in 1876 campaigned for Samuel J. Tilden. He died in Paris while on a tour for his health.

Leopold Markbreit Leopold Markbreit (March 13, 1842 – July 27, 1909) was an American Republican politician in Cincinnati, Ohio. The half-brother of Frederick Hassaurek, Markbreit was a lawyer who was briefly the law partner of Rutherford B. Hayes. President Ul ...

was his half-brother.

Works

* ''Four Years among the Spanish-Americans'' (New York, 1868) * ''The secret of the Andes.'' Cincinnati,

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1879
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References

* This source records his birthdate as 9 October 1832. *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hassaurek, Friedrich 1831 births 1885 deaths Journalists from Vienna 19th-century American diplomats Emigrants from the Austrian Empire to the United States Forty-Eighters Ohio Liberal Republicans Ohio Democrats Ohio Republicans 19th-century American journalists American male journalists 19th-century American male writers Ambassadors of the United States to Ecuador Burials at Spring Grove Cemetery