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Rosa Luxemburg

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Also known as Rozalia Luxenburg, Róża Luksemburg, Red Rosa Luxemburg

Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)

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Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish-German revolutionary and Marxist theorist who lived from 1871 to 1919 and played a significant role in European socialist movements. She matters historically because her ideas about revolution and imperialism influenced leftist thought, and her life and violent death became symbolic moments in twentieth-century political history.

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Zamość, Polska

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Dearest Dziodzio — Herself1981
The Eternal Jew — Self (archive footage)1940

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Instance of: human
Given name: Rosa
Gender: female
Citizenship: Switzerland
Place of birth: Zamość
Place of death: Berlin
Spouse: Julian Marchlewski
Occupation: botanical collector
Educated at: University of Zurich
Political party: Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania
Languages spoken: Polish
Religion: atheism
Notable work: The Accumulation of Capital
Participant in: 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
Student of: Julius Wolf
Image: Rosa Luxemburg.jpg
Work location: Berlin
Significant event: Nazi book burnings
Political ideology: Luxemburgism

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Commons category: Rosa Luxemburg
date of birth: 1871-03-05
date of death: 1919-01-15
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
cause of death: gunshot wound
manner of death: homicide
Commons Creator page: Rosa Luxemburg
topic's main category: Category:Rosa Luxemburg
Commons gallery: Rosa Luxemburg
name in native language: Róża Luksemburg
birth name: Rozalia Luksenburg
depicted by: Rosa Luxemburg
writing language: German
pseudonym: R. Kruszynska
affiliation: Spartacus League
partner in business or sport: Karl Liebknecht
unmarried partner: Leo Jogiches
place of burial: Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde

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