Harro Harring

Harro Paul Harring (1798–1870) was a German-Danish revolutionary and writer. Often identified as Danish, he was, more accurately, from North Frisia.

Harring was the son of a farm owner in Schleswig. First employed in the customs, he went to Copenhagen to devote himself to military historical painting. In 1820, he lived in Vienna and Würzburg, and then returned to Denmark. In 1821 he fought in the Greek War of Independence, and then went to Rome, where he stayed a year, then to Vienna in order to concentrate again on art.

Subsequently Harring lived in Switzerland and in Munich, and worked in Vienna as a playwright at the Theater an der Wien. He was in Prague and later went to Warsaw (1828), to enter as a cornet in a Russian lancer regiment.

As the 1830 July Revolution broke out in France, Harring returned to Germany, first to Braunschweig, then to Bavaria and Saxony. Expelled as a demagogue, he went to Strasbourg, where he edited the newspaper Das constitutionelle Deutschland and took part in the Hambach Festival (1832), but had to leave again for France.

Harring then lived in the Dijon–Châlons area, and met Mazzini. He took part in the republican attack on Savoie. He was arrested more than once in Switzerland, and expelled, after which he traveled to London. In May 1837, he was wounded in a gun battle and was living on the island of Helgoland. Arrested, he taken to a warship. In September 1838 he was on Jersey, in the winter 1838-39 back in Helgoland, then in Bordeaux and Bruges; in 1841 he was in the Netherlands, and later lived in England and France. After a period in Brazil, in August 1843 he traveled to the United States, where he lived as a painter and writer.

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