SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Ferdinand Lassalle

1825 - 1864

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Ferdinand Lassalle (11 April 1825 – 31 August 1864) was a German socialist activist and politician who founded the first German workers' party, the General German Workers' Association (ADAV), in 1863. He is best remembered as the initiator of the country's social-democratic movement, which after his death led to the formation of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1875. Lassalle studied philosophy at the Universities of Breslau and Berlin, and was involved as an agitator in the German Revolutions of 1848. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand Lassalle has received more than 550,363 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Ferdinand Lassalle is the 36th most popular social activist (down from 32nd in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Poland (down from 56th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Social Activist.

Ferdinand Lassalle was a German socialist and a co-founder of the German Social Democratic Party. He is most famous for his theory of "iron law of wages."

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Ferdinand Lassalle ranks 36 out of 840. Before him are Emily Greene Balch, Hassan al-Banna, Élie Ducommun, Sadako Sasaki, Emiliano Zapata, and Lady Godiva. After him are Jan Palach, Sophie Scholl, Shirin Ebadi, Simon Wiesenthal, Emmeline Pankhurst, and Martin Niemöller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Ferdinand Lassalle ranks 5. Before him are Johann Strauss II, Pedro II of Brazil, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, and Thomas Henry Huxley. After him are Jean-Martin Charcot, Johann Jakob Balmer, Charles Garnier, Paul Kruger, Emil Erlenmeyer, Marie of Prussia, and Dadabhai Naoroji. Among people deceased in 1864, Ferdinand Lassalle ranks 2. Before him is George Boole. After him are Maximilian II of Bavaria, Cheoljong of Joseon, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Vuk Karadžić, Hong Xiuquan, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, William I of Württemberg, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, and Leo von Klenze.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ferdinand Lassalle ranks 60 out of 1,694. Before him are Klaus Kinski (1926), Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896), Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), Sigismund I the Old (1467), Paul Ehrlich (1854), and Billy Wilder (1906). After him are Bolesław I the Brave (967), Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916), Albert A. Michelson (1852), Emanuel Lasker (1868), and Faustina Kowalska (1905).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Poland

Among social activists born in Poland, Ferdinand Lassalle ranks 3. Before him are Rosa Luxemburg (1871), and Irena Sendler (1910). After him are Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), Jan Karski (1914), Leopold Trepper (1904), Franciszek Gajowniczek (1901), Czesława Kwoka (1943), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), Franceska Mann (1917), and Danuta Wałęsa (1949).

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