STRUVE, GUSTAV VON

born Oct. 11, 1805, Munich, Bavaria died Aug. 21, 1870, Vienna, Austria German revolutionary and political agitator, who, with his wife, Amlie Disar, took an active part in the Baden insurrection of 184849. The son of a Russian charg d'affaires at Karlsruhe, he practiced law in Mannheim and founded and edited Deutscher Zuschauer, a radical journal agitating for establishment of a republic (184648). With Friedrich Hecker he drew up a radical program entitled Thirteen Claims Put Forward by the People of Baden (Sept. 12, 1847) and in the following year (April 12, 1848) sent a proclamation to the people of the area, summoning them to arms. When only a few thousand people responded and the revolution collapsed, Struve took refuge abroad in New York City, where he wrote a universal history, Allgemeine Weltgeschichte, 9 vol. (185360). After serving in the Union Army in the American Civil War (186162), he returned to Europe in 1863.