Andreas Scheu Papers

Period 1877-1920
Total size   0.35 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Vienna 1844, died in Rapperswill, Switzerland 1927; model maker and gilder; one of the pioneers of the Austrian social democratic movement; member of the Association of Labour Education, Vienna, and the International Working Men's Association; editor of Volkswille Vienna, correspondent for Gleichheit and the Arbeiter-Zeitung Vienna; representative at the congress of the German social democrats in Eisenach 1869; arrested in 1870 on the accusation of high treason; emigrated to England in 1874, but stayed in contact with the Austrian movement; participated in the foundation of the Social Democratic Federation in England; present at the congresses of the Second International; moved in artists' circles and wrote workers' poems and lyrics.

Content

Diary 1900-1920; correspondence with William Morris 1883-1895, May Morris-Sparling 1885-1896, G.B. Shaw 1884-1904, Edouard Vaillant 1877-1912 and others; manuscripts; notebooks with poems and workers' songs written or translated by Scheu (1870-) 1891-1900; press clippings of articles by Scheu 1884-1907 and of the serial `Elsa Grimm. Eine Erzählung aus dem Ende des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts' n.d.