The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Fröbel, Julius
FRÖBEL, Julius, German editor and
politician, nephew of Friedrich Froebel (q.v.): b.
1805; d. 1893. He pursued his studies at
Munich, Weimar and Berlin, and in 1833 was
appointed
professor of mineralogy in the industrial
schools of Zürich, Switzerland, and was
also editor of Der schweizerische Republikaner.
He gave up his professorship after 11 years and
engaged in publishing scientific works and
political tracts at Zürich. He removed to Dresden
in 1846, and in 1848 was one of the Democratic
leaders and a member of the Frankfort Main National
Assembly. During this troubled year
he visited Vienna in the company of Robert
Blum. He was arrested and condemned to
death, but because of his great talents he
received a pardon from Windischgrätz. He came
to the United States in 1849 and edited a
German journal in New York until 1850, when he
went to Nicaragua, and was later engaged in
commercial expeditions in Mexico. In 1855 he
was editor of a San Francisco paper and
returned to Germany in 1857. In 1862-73 he was
editor of newspapers in Munich and Vienna.
In the latter year he was appointed German
Consul at Smyrna, was transferred to Algiers
in 1876 and retired in 1890. He published ‘Aus
Amerika’ (1857), translated (1859) by himself
and issued under the title ‘Seven Years' Travel
in Central America, Northern Mexico and the
Far West’; ‘Die Wirtschaft des Menschengeaschlects’
(1870-76); ‘Ein Lebenslauf’ (1890-91)
an autobiography.