- Wilhelm Wolff
Wilhelm Friedrich Wolff (
June 21 1809 –May 9 1864 ) was a Germanschoolmaster from Tarnau (Tarnów), Galicia. In 1831 he became active as a radical student organization member, something he was imprisoned for between 1834 and 1838. In 1846, inBrussels , he became a close friend ofKarl Marx andFriedrich Engels . He was active in the BrusselsCommunist Correspondence Committee and a member of theLeague of the Just in addition to being Co-founder of theLeague of Communists in 1848 as a member of its central authority. He served as an editor of theNeue Rheinische Zeitung in 1848-9 and as a member of theFrankfurt National Assembly . He emigrated toSwitzerland in 1849 and then toEngland in 1851. Upon his death, Wolff left a substantial fortune to Marx, who dedicated the first volume of Capital to him with the line "To my unforgettable friend, Wilhelm Wolff. Intrepid, faithful, noble protagonist of the proletariat." [cite web | title = Glossary of People: Wolff, Wilhelm | work = Marxist Internet Archive | url = http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/w/o.htm ]Gerhant Hauptmann 's famous play 'Die Weber ' (The Weavers) is based on Wolffs essay about the weavers' uprising inSilesia in 1844 and its suppression "Das Elend und der Aufuhr in Schlesien" [Eyck, Frank "The Revolutions of 1848"Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1972 p. 19]References
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