Background
Adolf Glassbrenner was born on the 27th of March, 1810 in Berlin, Germany.
Adolf Glassbrenner was born on the 27th of March, 1810 in Berlin, Germany.
After working for a short time in a merchant's office, Adolf Glassbrenner turned to journalism, and in 1831 edited Don Quixote, a periodical which was suppressed in 1833 owing to its revolutionary tendencies. In 1848 Glassbrenner entered the political arena and became the leader of the democratic party in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Expelled from that country in 1850, he settled in Hamburg, where he remained until 1858.
And then he became editor of the Montagszeitung Berlin, where he died in 1876.
Adolf Glassbrenner next, under the pseudonym Adolf Brennglas, published a series of pictures of Berlin life, under the titles Berlin wie es ist undtrinkt (thirty parts, with illustrations, 1833–1849), and Buntes Berlin (fourteen parts, with illustrations, Berlin, 1837–1858), and thus became the founder of a popular satirical literature associated with modern Berlin.
