Researching Otto Braun
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The name Otto means "Form of OTHELLO. Prosperous" and is of Teutonic origin.
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Some Famous People called Otto Braun
Otto Braun (communist)
Otto Braun (28 September 1900 – 15 August 1974) was a German Communist journalist and functionary of the Communist Party of Germany with a long and varied career. His most significant role was as a Comintern agent sent to China in 1934, to advise the Communist Party of China (CPC) on military strategy during the Chinese Civil War. At the time Braun adopted a Chinese name, Li De ; it was only many years later that Otto Braun and "Li De" came to be known as the same person.
Source: Otto Braun (communist), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Otto Philipp Braun
Otto Philipp Braun (called also: Felipe Braun) was born on 13 December 1798 in Kassel, Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel (today Germany), and he died on 24 July 1869 in Bad Wildungen near Kassel, a province of the Kingdom of Prussia. Braun was one of the most successful foreign volunteers participating in the independence war of South America. He was an important supporter of Simon Bolívar and Antonio José de Sucre and later of Andrés de Santa Cruz. In 1838 Braun was awarded the title “Great Marshal of Montenegro” being Bolivia's only Great Marshal and South America's only foreign Marshal until today.
Source: Otto Philipp Braun, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Otto Philipp Braun (journalist)
Otto Philipp Braun (1 August 1824 – 10 June 1900) was a German newspaper editor and translator. He was the nephew of the Bolivian general of the same name.
He was born in Kassel where he attended the Lyceum Fridericianum, and later studied law, history, and modern languages in Bonn, Heidelberg and Marburg. He was the president of the Marburg Students' Society and participated in the student parliaments at Eisenach. During the 1850s he lived and worked in Paris, Madrid, Kassel and Munich, in 1855 joining the staff of the pro-Prussian Allgemeine Zeitung in Augsburg (and later in Munich). He became the chief editor in March 1869, and continued with the paper until 1891.
Active in the literary life of Munich and a friend of Paul Heyse, he is remembered for his translations from the Spanish and as the editor of the Cottaschen Musenalmenach.
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