Franz Sebastian Seiler (1810 – 4 December 1890) was a German, an associate of

Wilhelm Weitling Wilhelm Christian Weitling (October 5, 1808 – January 25, 1871) was a German tailor, inventor, radical political activist and one of the first theorists of communism. Weitling gained fame in Europe as a social theorist before he emigrated t ...

, a Swiss reformer.Refugees of revolution: the German Forty-eighters in America
by Carl Frederick Wittke, 1952. p. 171, 269 He was a journalist on the ''

Rheinische Zeitung The ''Rheinische Zeitung'' ("Rhenish Newspaper") was a 19th-century German newspaper, edited most famously by Karl Marx. The paper was launched in January 1842 and terminated by Prussian state censorship in March 1843. The paper was eventually su ...

'' and a member of the

Brussels Communist Correspondence Committee Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

in 1846. Seiler was "a stenographer to the French National Assembly in 1848 and 1849."Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850
marxengels.public-archive.net He joined the

Communist League The Communist League (German: ''Bund der Kommunisten)'' was an international political party established on 1 June 1847 in London, England. The organisation was formed through the merger of the League of the Just, headed by Karl Schapper, and th ...

and took part in the 1848-1849 revolution in Germany. Following the suppression of that revolution, Seiler escaped to London, England in the 1850s. From 1859-1860 he was the editor of the ''Deutsche Zeitung'', and he started a weekly paper in 1860, ''The New Orleans Journal.'' Seiler later worked for Negro suffrage.Germans of Louisiana
Ellen C. Merril, 2011

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German National Library * ttp://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85034518/ New Orleans Journal published by Sebastian Seiler
"The famous author of "Kaspar Hauser"
letter by

Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...

Kaspar Hauser, der Thronerber Badens
by Sebastian Seiler. Paris, 1845.
Das Complot vom 13. Juni 1849 oder der letzte Sieg der Bourgeoisie in Frankreich: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Gegenwart
by Sebastian Seiler

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