German author, born at Hamm, Westphalia, on the 13th of April 1824. He studied at Heidelberg, and practiced law in Germany until 1850, when he removed to New York. He continued his practice, and took part in public affairs. In 1860 he was a Presidential elector; for three years before his return he was commissioner of immigration in New York. His knowledge of America made him valuable at home in international legislation, and in 1870 he returned to Germany, and in 1871 became a member of the German Diet. He published The Slave Question in the United States (1854); Life of General Steuben (1858); A History of German Migration into America (1867); On Immigration and the Commission of Immigration (1870); and Frederick the Great and the United States (1874). He died in Berlin on the 27th of October 1884.
