SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Rosa Luxemburg

1871 - 1919

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Rosa Luxemburg ( LUK-səm-burg; Polish: Róża Luksemburg [ˈruʐa ˈluksɛmburk] ; German: [ˈʁoːza ˈlʊksm̩bʊʁk] ; born Rozalia Luksenburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary and Marxist theorist. She was a key figure of the socialist movements in Poland and Germany in the early 20th century. Born to a Jewish family in Congress Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, Luxemburg became involved in radical politics at an early age via the Proletariat party, and fled to Switzerland in 1889. She helped found the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) party in 1893, and in 1897 was awarded a Doctor of Law in political economy from the University of Zurich, becoming one of the first women in Europe to do so. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rosa Luxemburg has received more than 4,964,943 page views. Her biography is available in 131 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 127 in 2019). Rosa Luxemburg is the 7th most popular social activist (down from 6th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Poland and the most popular Polish Social Activist.

Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish-born Marxist theorist and politician. She was a co-founder of the Communist Party of Germany and a leader of the Spartacist uprising.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 7 out of 840. Before her are Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Jan Hus. After her are Henry Dunant, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jean-Paul Marat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 2. Before her is Ernest Rutherford. After her are Marcel Proust, Friedrich Ebert, Alexander Scriabin, Karl Liebknecht, Paul Valéry, Guangxu Emperor, Pietro Badoglio, Baroness Mary Vetsera, Grazia Deledda, and Albert Lebrun. Among people deceased in 1919, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 1. After her are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernst Haeckel, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Gojong of Korea, Emil Fischer, Karl Liebknecht, Emiliano Zapata, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Carl Larsson, and John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 7 out of 1,694. Before her are Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), Frédéric Chopin (1810), Marie Curie (1867), Pope John Paul II (1920), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), and Catherine the Great (1729). After her are David Ben-Gurion (1886), Lech Wałęsa (1943), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Manfred von Richthofen (1892), and Günter Grass (1927).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Poland

Among social activists born in Poland, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 1. After her are Irena Sendler (1910), Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), 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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