Moses Hess Papers

Period 1830-1885
Total size   0.75 m.
Consultation Not restricted
User restriction File descriptions with addition 'ZCA' are not availbale at the IISH and can only be consulted at the Zionist Central Archives in Jerusalem

Biography

Born in Bonn 1812, died in Paris 1875; journalist and writer, pioneer for both the socialist movement and the Zionist movement; went to Paris at the end of the 1830s; wrote e.g. for Rheinische Zeitung, Deutsch-französische Jahrbücher, Vorwärts Paris, Rheinische Jahrbücher and closely cooperated with Marx and Engels; chairman of the Deutsche Arbeiterverein and journalist in Paris 1848-1849; had to flee, went first to Switzerland then to Belgium, and returned to Paris in 1853, where he stayed intermittently for the rest of his life; after the coup of Napoleon III in 1851 turned towards the natural sciences; returned to politics during the Italian war in 1859; supported the national movements in 1863; representative of the Allgemeine Deutsche Arbeiterverein in Cologne; extradited from Paris as a Prussian citizen in 1870; criticized Bismarck's policies and soon returned to Paris, where he worked on cosmological studies.

Content

Part of his papers: diaries 1835-1836, notes 1851-1854 and other personal documents; financial documents; correspondence with `Amiral' 1871, Bernhard Becker 1864-1865, 1867, Johann Philipp Becker 1862, 1868-1869, Friedrich Engels [1845]-1846, August Hermann Ewerbeck 1848, Sophie von Hatzfeldt 1864-1865, Aleksandr I. Gercen 1849-1851, International Working Men's Association (IWMA), Section Basel 1868-1869, Ferdinand Lassalle 1863-1864, Wilhelm Liebknecht [1869], 1870, 1874, Leopold Löw 1861-1862, Ludwig Philippson 1861-1862, Friedrich August Reckahn 1857-1858, Friedrich Hermann Semmig 1859-1860, 1866-1868, Otto U(h)le, editor of Natur 1856-1859, 1863, Julius Vahlteich, secretary of the Allgemeine Deutsche Arbeiterverein 1863 and others; photocopies of correspondence with Karl Marx 1845-[1847]; literary and non literary manuscripts; excerpts and notes; correspondence by his wife Sybille Hess for the most part from the period 1875-1885 with Johann Philipp Becker [1872], 1875-1878, 1882, 1884, Georg von Vollmar 1880, 1882, 1885 and others.

Arrangement

The MSS of Hess are mainly preserved in two centers: the IISH and the Zionist Central Archives in Jerusalem (ZCA). File descriptions in this list with addition 'ZCA' are not availbale at the IISH and can only be consulted at the Zionist Central Archives in Jerusalem.

Alternate Form of Material

Security microfilms 1980 Partly published in: Moses Hess, Briefwechsel. Hrsg. von Edmund Silberner unter Mitwirkung von Werner Blumenberg. The Hague, 1959; Wilhelm Liebknecht, Briefwechsel mit deutschen Sozialdemokraten. Band 1. 1862- 1878. Hrsg. und bearbeitet von Georg Eckert. Assen, Van Gorcum, 1973. Band 2. 1878-1884. Hrsg. von Götz Langkau unter Mitwirkung von Ursula Balzer und Jan Gielkens. Frankfurt/New York, 1988.

Related material

At the Zionist Central Archives, Jerusalem