Gustav von Struve

Gustav von Struve (born Oct. 11, 1805, Munich, Bavaria [Germany]—died Aug. 21, 1870, Vienna, Austria) was a German revolutionary and political agitator, who, with his wife, Amélie Disar, took an active part in the Baden insurrection of 1848–49. The son of a Russian chargé d’affaires at Karlsruhe, he practiced law in Mannheim and founded and edited Deutscher Zuschauer, a radical journal agitating for establishment of a republic (1846–48). With Friedrich Hecker he drew up a...