Hermann Jung Papers
Period
(1854-)
1861-1888
Total size
1 m.
Consultation
Not restricted
Biography
Born in St. Imier, Switzerland 1830, died in London 1901; internationalist, socialist; watchmaker; took part in the revolution of 1848/49 in Germany; emigrated to London; member of the Central, later General Council of the International Working Men's Association (IWMA) and corresponding secretary for Switzerland 1864-1872; president of the congresses of the IWMA in Geneva, Brussels, Basel and London; member of the British Federal Council; a follower of Marx, but after 1872 opposed centralism together with the British Federal Council and the leaders of the British trade unions; withdrew from the labour movement in 1877.
Content
Proceedings of and reports, proposals, letters, press clippings and other documents on conferences of the IWMA in London, Geneva, Lausanne, Brussels, London, The Hague, Geneva, Brussels, Verviers and Paris 1865-1868, 1871-1874, 1877-1878; proceedings of the General Council (Generalrat) of the IWMA with annexes 1864-1872; statements, resolutions, circulars and some reports of the General Council including some miscellanea and press clippings 1868-1875; documents of and press clippings on the sections of the IWMA in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and the United States 1863-1874, 1876-1877, 1879, 1882-1883; accounts and receipts 1866-1873, 1877; letters from Johann Philipp Becker 1866-1871, Friedrich Bolte 1872-1873, Paul Brousse 1880-1885, Comité fédéral de la Suisse romande 1869-1871, J. George Eccarius 1868-1883, F. Kupper 1872-1873, Petr Lavrov 1872-1879, Henri Perret 1868-1874, Friedrich A. Sorge 1870-1873, Karl Speyer 1871-1873, and Francisco Tomás 1872-1873 and others, to Hermann Jung and others; some personal documents 1869-1883, 1888.
Alternate Form of Material
Security microfilms 1980 Partly published in: Documents relatifs aux militants Belges de L'Association Internationale des Travailleurs. Correspondance 1865-1872. Textes réunis, établis et annotés par Daisy Eveline Devreese. Louvain/Bruxelles, 1986.