SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Rosa Luxemburg

1871 - 1919

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Rosa Luxemburg ( LUK-səm-burg; Polish: Róża Luksemburg [ˈruʐa ˈluksɛmburk] ; German: [ˈʁoːza ˈlʊksm̩bʊʁk] ; born Rozalia Luksenburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised German revolutionary and Marxist theorist. She was a key figure of the socialist movements in Poland and Germany in the early 20th century. Born to a Jewish family in Congress Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, Luxemburg became involved in radical politics at an early age via the Proletariat party, and fled to Switzerland in 1889. She helped found the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) party in 1893, and in 1897 was awarded a Doctor of Law in political economy from the University of Zurich, becoming one of the first women in Europe to do so. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rosa Luxemburg is the 8th most popular social activist (down from 7th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Poland 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 8 out of 840. Before her are Che Guevara, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, and Eleanor Roosevelt. After her are Jan Hus, Henry Dunant, Helen Keller, Aung San Suu Kyi, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, and Claus von Stauffenberg.

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Among people born in 1871, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 1. After her are Marcel Proust, Ernest Rutherford, Alexander Scriabin, Friedrich Ebert, Grazia Deledda, Victor Grignard, Karl Liebknecht, Guangxu Emperor, Pietro Badoglio, Paul Valéry, and Albert Lebrun. Among people deceased in 1919, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 2. Before her is Pierre-Auguste Renoir. After her are John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Emil Fischer, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernst Haeckel, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Alfred Werner, Gojong of Korea, Karl Liebknecht, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, and Emiliano Zapata.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 7 out of 1,694. Before her are Marie Curie (1867), Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), Pope John Paul II (1920), Frédéric Chopin (1810), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), and Catherine the Great (1729). After her are Albert A. Michelson (1852), Lech Wałęsa (1943), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), and David Ben-Gurion (1886).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Poland

Among social activists born in Poland, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 1. After her are Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), Irena Sendler (1910), Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), Jan Karski (1914), Leopold Trepper (1904), Czesława Kwoka (1943), Franciszek Gajowniczek (1901), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Franceska Mann (1917), and Danuta Wałęsa (1949).

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