Carl Schurz (1829 – 1906):
democratic revolutionary in the German Revolution of 1848, emigrated to the USA in 1852 where he served as Union Army General in the American Civil War, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of the Interior. Carl Schurz was a student at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bonn from 1846 to 1849.
Source of citation: Speeches, correspondence and political papers of Carl Schurz, Vol. I, 1913, p. 51.