Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand | Alexandre Dumas | Full Length Audiobook
This is a full length audio recording/book of Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand by Alexandre Dumas.
This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story of Karl Ludwig Sand, who stabbed August von Kotzebue to death in 1819. August von Kotzebue had been a prominent dramatist, a student of Musäus, whose royalist and conservative writings ultimately led to his assassination by a member of a revolutionary liberal Burschenschaft. - Summary by Carolin
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Read by John Van Stan
Translated by George Burnham Ives (1856 - 1930)
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Video Summary
AI GeneratedThis narrative chronicles the life, radicalization, and execution of Karl Ludwig Sand (Zand), a German student driven by nationalism and grief. After the death of his friend and disillusionment with European politics, Sand assassinates the writer Kotzebue, whom he views as a traitor. The story follows his subsequent imprisonment, his spiritual fortitude, and his eventual death as a perceived martyr for German liberty.