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Ferdinand Lassalle (1825–1864)
Lassalle, Ferdinand (lä-säl’). A German agitator, founder of the German Social Democracy; born of Jewish parents named Lassal, at Breslau, April 11, 1825; died on Aug. 31, 1864. Among his writings are: ‘Franz von Sickingen,’ a historical drama (1859); ‘The Philosophy of Heraclitus the Obscure’ (2 vols., 1858); ‘The System of Acquired Rights’ (2 vols., 1860); ‘Fichte’s Philosophy and the Popular Mind of Germany’ (1862). He first came into politics as the spokesman of the German workingman in 1862, when he published the ‘Workingmen’s Programme.’ For this he was arrested and imprisoned. Other pamphlets followed: ‘Science and the Workingmen’ (1863); ‘The Criminal Trial of Lassalle’ (1863); ‘Indirect Taxation and the Condition of the Laboring Classes’ (1863). His last work was a spirited attack on one of the foremost opponents of the Social Democracy, ‘Herr Bastiat-Schulze von Delitzsch, the Julian of Economics; or Capital and Labor’ (1864).