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Friedrich Kapp was born on April 13, 1824 at Hamm, Westphalia, Prussia (nowadays Germany), where his father, Dr. Friedrich Kapp, was the distinguished director of the Gymnasium.
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Friedrich Kapp was born on April 13, 1824 at Hamm, Westphalia, Prussia (nowadays Germany), where his father, Dr. Friedrich Kapp, was the distinguished director of the Gymnasium.
At Easter 1842, Friedrich Kapp entered the University of Heidelberg as a law student, undertaking at the same time studies in philosophy and philology. He went to the University of Berlin in the summer of 1844; after his year of military service he was admitted to the practice of law at Hamm on April 7, 1845.
With the outbreak of the revolution Kapp left Hamm in March 1848 and became a newspaper correspondent, first in Frankfurt, later in Brussels and Paris. He returned to Germany in 1849 to participate in the new revolution, but actual contact with the movement revealed its stupidity and he again went to Paris. In July 1849 he moved on to Geneva, and there was associated with a group of German and Italian revolutionists, whose futile plottings wearied him and caused him to abandon the movement.
In March 1850 he came to New York and there, with two dollars, began his American career. He became a member of the law firm of Zitz, Kapp & Froebel; yet, despite his early success, he had no liking for the law. He began to write for many newspapers and periodicals, including the early numbers of the Nation, and in 1850 he became the editor of the New-Yorker Abendzeitung. From 1861 to 1865 he was the American correspondent for the "Kölnische Zeitung" and with his return to Berlin in 1870 he became the regular correspondent of the New York Nation. From 1867 to 1870 he was an active member of the New York Board of Immigration, where he successfully introduced various reforms.
Neither the extent nor the value of his historical writings has yet been sufficiently appreciated. His first writings appeared at a time when the general state of historical writing in America was low; his researches were based chiefly upon manuscript sources, he possessed a fresh and vigorous style, and his writings were characterized by their realism and humor. His Leben des Amerikanischen Generals Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, published in New York and Berlin in 1858, was privately printed in English in 1870 and published in 1884. His most valuable biographical work, Leben des Americanischen Generals Johann Kalb (Stuttgart, 1862), was translated in 1884. The Geschichte der deutschen Einwanderung in Amerika (New York, 1867) has frequently been republished under various titles. A third important study of eighteenth-century American history was his Friedrich der Grosse und die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika, published at Leipzig in 1871. His Aus und über Amerika (Berlin, 1876), two brilliant volumes on the United States, was another important title in a lengthy bibliography. Written after he had definitely returned to Germany in 1870, it was unfavorably received in America because of its realism and candid opinions.
The last years of his life were devoted to his literary and political activities. Naturalized as a Prussian in 1870, he was elected to the Reichstag as a National Liberal in 1871 and served 1871-1878 and again 1881-1884. He was also a member of the Prussian Landtag, 1874-1877. Admiring Bismarck as the bringer of German unity, he found it difficult to accept his domestic policies. He died of diabetes in Berlin while engaged upon a monumental history of the German book trade, of which the first volume, Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels bis in das siebenzehnte Jahrhundert, was published posthumously at Leipzig in 1886.
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Kapp's political notions were idealistic and he entertained an optimistic belief in the capacity of the people for leadership. Once in America, he became associated with the Whigs, because he thought that with them the arts and knowledge were among the highest things in life. He and his friends became interested in the slavery question and his writings and political agitation brought him into the front ranks of the newly founded Republican party, for which his labors were incessant and fruitful. He became a powerful influence among the German population of New York and no German project was launched without his advice and assistance. When he returned to Germany he became affiliated with the National Liberal Party.
Kapp was a man of extensive culture: his home in New York was the center of a literary and political circle. It is he who is portrayed as "the citizen of two worlds" in Bertold Auerbach's Das Landhausiam Rein (translated as The Villa on the Rhine, 1869).
In New York, Kapp married Luise Engels, the daughter of General Friedrich Ludwig C. Engels.