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Ferdinand Lassalle

German jurist and socialist (1825–1864)

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Ferdinand Lassalle was a German jurist and socialist thinker who lived in the mid-19th century and helped shape early socialist and labor movements in Germany. His legal expertise and political ideas made him an influential figure in debates about workers' rights and democracy during a transformative period in European history.

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Born: 1825
Died: 1864
Works: 147

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Ferdinand Johann Gottlieb Lassalle (11 April 1825 – 31 August 1864) was a German jurist, philosopher, and socialist activist. Best remembered as an initiator of the social democratic movement in Germany, in 1863 he founded the General German Workers' Association (ADAV), the first independent German workers' party. His political theories, a form of state socialism, are known as Lassalleanism.

Born in Breslau to a prosperous Jewish family, Lassalle became a follower of Hegelian philosophy in his youth. During the 1840s and 1850s, he gained public renown for his involvement in a long and sensational legal case to vindicate the rights of Countess Sophie von Hatzfeldt. Active in the revolutions of 1848, he formed a complex and often antagonistic relationship with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Lassalle also authored several major intellectual works, including the philosophical treatise Heraclitus the Obscure (1857) and the legal study The System of Acquired Rights (1861).