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Carl Heinrich was born on July 4, 1823 in Heimsheim, near Stuttgart, Germany, the son of a dyer, Johann Heinrich Schnauffer, and Karoline (Hasenmaier) Schnauffer.
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Carl Heinrich was born on July 4, 1823 in Heimsheim, near Stuttgart, Germany, the son of a dyer, Johann Heinrich Schnauffer, and Karoline (Hasenmaier) Schnauffer.
Owing to the early death of his father, Schnauffer's schooling was cut short. In 1846 he entered the university at Heidelberg, where he associated with the liberal student groups.
After serving an apprenticeship in Grossbottwar, Schnauffer entered the employ of a Mannheim merchant. His employer recognized his literary ability and gave him the necessary time for study. At this time Schnauffer met two men whose ideals influenced the whole course of his life, Gustav Struve and Friedrich Karl Franz Hecker, revolutionary leaders in Baden and emigrants to America after 1848.
While srudying at the university he published his first volume of verse, strongly influenced by Pierre-Jean de Beranger and Ferdinand Freiligrath. In the next year he joined the staff of the liberal Mannheimer Abendzeitung, and in 1848 followed Hecker into the field and fought in a number of engagements of the ill-starred uprising of the South-German liberals.
He fled to Switzerland, but in 1849 he joined in the renewed fighting, and on June 22 he was taken prisoner at Mannheim and transported to Prussia. He escaped from prison disguised as a locksmith, and once more took refuge in Switzerland where he wrote his Todtenkranze, inspired probably by a work of the same title by Christian von Zedlitz.
In April 1850 he was seized by the Swiss government and forced to leave for London along with other revolutionary leaders. In London he met Struve and together they went to the estate of Thomas Fothergill, a friend from Heidelberg days who offered them asylum.
He performed manual labor for his keep, among other things training race horses, and also began a five-act drama in the style of Schiller, Koenig Karl I oder Cromwell und die englische Revolution, which was privately printed in Baltimore in 1854.
He identified himself enthusiastically with the "Turner" movement and founded, in October 1851 Baltimore Wecker, which opposed the current "Know-Nothingism. "
The best works by Schnauffer are poems in the style of Arndt or Herwegh. His collected poems were published in 1879 under the title, Lieder und Gedichte aus dem Nachlass von Carl Heinrich Schnauffer.
He died at the age of thirty-one from typhoid fever, just before news reached him that one of his lyrics had won the first prize at the "Turner" convention in Philadelphia.
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Schnauffer sounded a ringing call to battle for freedom in the name of those executed by the reactionaries. Schnauffer never preached economic revolution, but in his lyrics he continually elaborated on the theme that the noble man should at all times be ready to fight and die for freedom.
Schnauffer was quite short in stature but military in bearing, and he had a personality that inspired enthusiastic devotion in his friends.
In Mannheim Schnauffer had become engaged to Elise Wilhelmine Moos who had, however, emigrated to Baltimore, Maryland, with her family in 1847. For several years Schnauffer had no news of her but, in 1850, correspondence was renewed and in May of the following year he joined her in Baltimore where they were married. They had two children.