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Because he got himself involved in the 1849 revolution in Dresden, part of the revolutions that had broken out throughout Europe the previous year. He played a minor role, but it was enough to get a warrant issued for his arrest, so he fled, first to Paris, then to Zurich in Switzerland, where he stayed for nine years, then Venice and Paris again before the Saxon government pardoned him in 1862, allowing him to return to Germany.

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