biography
| name: |
Lassalle, Ferdinand
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pronunciation:
[lasal]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1825–64)
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| biography:
| Social Democrat, born in Wrocław, SW Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia). In Berlin (1844–5) he championed the cause of Countess Sophie Hatzfeld's divorce before 36 tribunals, earning financial independence. He took part in the revolution of 1848, during which he met Marx, and for an inflammatory speech got six months in prison. He founded the Universal German Working-Men's Association (the forerunner of the Social Democratic Party) to agitate for universal suffrage. He died shortly after a duel with Count Racowitza of Wallachia over the hand of Helene von Domiges. |
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