Carl Adolph Douai

Carl Adolph Douai

Carl Adolph Douai (February 22 1819 – 1888) was a notable German Texan. He was an educational reformer, abolitionist, newspaper editor, and labor leader from Altenburg, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. He married Baroness von Beust on September 26, 1843, in the city of Königsberg. Together they had ten children.

Douai participated in the Revolutions of 1848 and wrote articles for various newspapers supporting revolutionary aims. [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/DD/fdo30.html]


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