{{Short description|German-American writer and editor}} '''Rudolph Lexow''' (January 10, 1823 Tönning,<ref name=schlegel/> Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark – July 16, 1909 New York City) was an American writer and editor.
==Biography== Lexow graduated from the University of Kiel and was active in the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany. He fled to England, where he married Caroline King in Hull,<ref name=schlegel/> and then traveled on to the United States, where he settled in New York City and founded the ''Belletristisches Journal'' in 1852.
==Family== Rudolph and Caroline Lexow were the parents of New York City attorney Charles King Lexow, New York state senator Clarence Lexow, Allan Lexow and Rudolph G. Lexow.<ref name=schlegel>{{Cite book|author=Carl Schlegel|title=Schlegel's American Families of German Ancestry|page=225|publisher=The American Historical Society|location=New York|year=1918|isbn=9780806317281|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mz9cZnXYwjMC&pg=PA225}} This source reports Lexow's birth year as 1821.</ref> Their granddaughter Caroline Lexow Babcock was a prominent suffragist and pacifist.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=neoA8ZrqrsQC&dq=%22Caroline%20Lexow%20Babcock%20died&pg=PA25 Harriet Hyman Alonso, ''The Women's Peace Union and the Outlawry of War'' (Syracuse University Press 1997): 25.] {{ISBN|0815604173}}</ref>
==Works== He wrote histories of the American Civil War and of the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany.
==References== {{Reflist}} * {{Cite journal|journal=The New York Times|date=July 17, 1909|title=Rudolph Lexow|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20F13F73F5D12738DDDAE0994DF405B898CF1D3}} * {{Cite book|url=https://www.archivaria.com/BdDA/BdDA1.html|title=Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika|page=376|location=Philadelphia|publisher=Walther's Buchdruckerei|year=1909}} * {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vyoiAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA72|page=72|title=Geo. P. Rowell & Co's American Newspaper Directory|year=1869}}
==External links== * {{Cite book|author=Rudolph Lexow|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wMw6AAAAcAAJ|year=1854|title=Amerikanische Criminal-Mysterien oder das Leben der Verbrecher in New-York|location=Stuttgart and New York|publisher=Hallberger'sche Verlagshandlung|volume=2}} * {{Cite book|author=Rudolph Lexow|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mLlAAAAAYAAJ|year=1872|title=Romane und Novellen|publisher=E. Steiger|volume=3, 4}}
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