Ferdinand Lassalle

Ferdinand Lassalle
Lassalle in 1860
Born	Ferdinand Johann Gottlieb Lassal (1825-04-11)11 April 1825 Breslau, Province of Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland)
Died	31 August 1864(1864-08-31) (aged 39) Carouge, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland
Resting place	Old Jewish Cemetery, Wrocław
Nationality	German
Political party	General German Workers' Association
Philosophy career
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy, German philosophy
School	Social democracy
Main interests	Political philosophy, economics, history
Notable ideas	Iron law of wages, Lassallism
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Ferdinand Lassalle (11 April 1825 – 31 August 1864) was a Prussian-German jurist, philosopher, socialist and politician who is best remembered as the initiator of the social-democratic movement in Germany. "Lassalle was the first man in Germany, the first in Europe, who succeeded in organising a party of socialist action", according to Élie Halévy. Or, as Rosa Luxemburg put it: "Lassalle managed to wrestle from history in two years of flaming agitation that needed decades to come about".

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As an agitator, he coined the terms night-watchman state and iron law of wages.