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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Rosa Luxemburg

1871 - 1919

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Rosa Luxemburg (Polish: Róża Luksemburg, [ˈruʐa ˈluksɛmburk] ; German: [ˈʁoːza ˈlʊksm̩bʊʁk] ; born Rozalia Luksenburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, orthodox Marxist, and anti-War activist during the First World War. She became a key figure of the revolutionary socialist movements of Poland and Germany during the late 19th and early 20th century, particularly the Spartacist uprising. Born and raised in a secular Jewish family in Congress Poland, she became a German citizen in 1897. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rosa Luxemburg has received more than 4,465,082 page views. Her biography is available in 127 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 126 in 2019). Rosa Luxemburg is the 6th most popular social activist (down from 5th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Poland (down from 6th in 2019) 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 6 out of 538. Before her are Che Guevara, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, and Jan Hus. After her are Mother Teresa, Henry Dunant, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller, and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 2. Before her is Marcel Proust. After her are Ernest Rutherford, Friedrich Ebert, Alexander Scriabin, Karl Liebknecht, Paul Valéry, Pietro Badoglio, Guangxu Emperor, Baroness Mary Vetsera, Victor Grignard, 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, Emil Fischer, Karl Liebknecht, Alfred Werner, Emiliano Zapata, Gojong of Korea, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, and Andrew Carnegie.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 7 out of 1,454. Before her are Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), Marie Curie (1867), Frédéric Chopin (1810), Pope John Paul II (1920), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), and Catherine the Great (1729). After her are Lech Wałęsa (1943), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), David Ben-Gurion (1886), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Fritz Haber (1868), 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), Leopold Trepper (1904), Jan Karski (1914), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), and Ernestine Rose (1810).

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