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Henry Hotze (September 2, 1833 – April 19, 1887) was a Swiss American propagandist for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. He acted as a Confederate agent in Great Britain, attempting to build support for the Southern cause there.
Jan 11, 2024 · The life of Henry Hotze is largely unknown in Switzerland. Born in Zürich, Hotze emigrated to the United States. Later, he became the Confederacy's chief propagandist in Europe during the U.S. Civil War.
Nov 20, 2012 · In late 1861, a 27-year-old naturalized Alabamian from Switzerland named Henry Hotze was sent on a secret mission to London. Officially, he would be a Confederate commercial agent, negotiating...
The life of Henry Hotze encompasses the history of antebellum Mobile, Confederate military recruitment, Civil War diplomacy and international intrigue, and the development of a Darwinian-based effort to find scientific evidence for differences among human “races.”
- Lonnie A. Burnett
- 2008
Mar 30, 2023 · Henry Hotze Although he lived in Alabama for less than a decade, Henry Hotze (1834-1887) left a significant and often infamous record of literary, military, and diplomatic service to his adopted state and to the Confederacy.
Jul 6, 2008 · The life of Henry Hotze encompasses the history of antebellum Mobile, Confederate military recruitment, Civil War diplomacy and international intrigue, and the development of a...
Jan 8, 2020 · “Henry Hotze, confederate Propagandist in England” (unpublished master's thesis, Duke University, 1945); and Robert F. Durden, “The Index: Confederate Newspaper in London, 1862–1865” (unpublished master's thesis, Emory University, 1948).
