SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Joseph Weydemeyer

1818 - 1866

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Joseph Arnold Weydemeyer (February 2, 1818 – August 26, 1866) was a military officer in the Kingdom of Prussia and the United States as well as a journalist, politician and Marxist revolutionary. At first a supporter of "true socialism", Weydemeyer became in 1845–1846 a follower of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and a member of the League of Communists, heading its Frankfurt chapter from 1849 to 1851. He visited Marx in Brussels, staying there for a time to attend Marx's lectures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Weydemeyer has received more than 109,723 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Joseph Weydemeyer is the 544th most popular social activist (down from 492nd in 2019), the 4,994th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,595th in 2019) and the 35th most popular German Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Joseph Weydemeyer ranks 544 out of 840. Before him are John Peters Humphrey, Xiomara Acevedo, Szeto Wah, Abraham Flexner, Aminatou Haidar, and Karen Silkwood. After him are Meena Keshwar Kamal, Oswaldo Payá, Henry Spira, Stephen Mallory, Roger Stone, and Akira Amano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Joseph Weydemeyer ranks 92. Before him are Ludwig Traube, Nikolay Milyutin, Mary Elizabeth Barber, Alexander Dreyschock, Benjamin Butler, and József Szlávy. After him are Don Carlos Buell, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Johan Lange, José Amador de los Ríos, Elizabeth F. Ellet, and Charles J. Folger. Among people deceased in 1866, Joseph Weydemeyer ranks 48. Before him are Lewis Cass, John Ross, Theodor Kotschy, José Ignacio Pavón, Thomas Love Peacock, and Henryk Rzewuski. After him are Matvey Gusev, Manuel Felipe de Tovar, William Henry Harvey, Samuel Ryan Curtis, Robert F. Stockton, and John Keble.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Weydemeyer ranks 4,994 out of 7,253. Before him are Sigmund Haringer (1908), Wolfgang Clement (1940), Carl Amery (1922), Karl Mauch (1837), Volker Weidler (1962), and Barbara Hendricks (1952). After him are Gabriele Kuby (1944), Wilhelm Brinkmann (1910), Curt Goetz (1888), Wilhelm Leichum (1911), Hans Schlegel (1951), and Friedel Rausch (1940).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Joseph Weydemeyer ranks 35. Before him are Anita Augspurg (1857), Inge Scholl (1917), Henriette Herz (1764), Eugen Drewermann (1940), Theodor Loos (1883), and Helene Stöcker (1869). After him are Lida Heymann (1868), and Luisa Neubauer (1996).

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