Viktor Külföldi

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Viktor Külföldi
Born	Jakab Mayer-Rubcsics 1844 Thalheim, Kingdom of Saxony
Died	March 5, 1894(1894-03-05) (aged 49–50) Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Pen name	Viktor Külföldi
Occupation	Journalist, lecturer
Language	Hungarian
Nationality	Hungarian
Subject	Social democracy

Viktor Külföldi, real name Jakab Mayer-Rubcsics, born Jacob Mayer (Hungarian: Mayer-Rubcsics Jakab, "Külföldi Viktor") (1844 – March 5, 1894) was a Hungarian Socialist, journalist, and lecturer.

Born in Thalheim, Germany^[1] (or Switzerland?^[2]), he was known in his adopted country by the alias "Külföldi" (Hungarian for "foreigner").^[1] In 1871 he became a member of the International Working Men's Association.^[1] Together with Karóly Farkas^[hu] (1842–1907) and Antal Ihrlinger^[hu], he co-founded the first Hungarian Socialist organization, the General Working Men's Union^[hu] (Hungarian: az Általános Munkásegylet).^[3] For organizing a strike by the GWMU, he, among others, was arrested (1871–2) and accused of high treason; he was eventually acquitted because of lack of evidence.^[1]^[3]

In 1877 Külföldi founded the Social-democratic newspaper Népszava ("People's Voice"). He retired from the worker's movement in 1890 and died in Budapest in 1894.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Külföldi Viktor" (in Hungarian). Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon 1000 – 1990 ("Hungarian Electronic Encyclopedia 1000 –1990"). Retrieved December 15, 2009.
^ "Külföldi, Viktor; früher Jacob Mayer, bis 1865 Rubcsics (1844-1894), Politiker und Publizist" [Külföldi, Viktor; formerly Jacob Mayer, to 1865 Rubcsics (1844–1894), politician and publicist] (XML). Austrian biographical dictionary: 1815-1950 (in German). Vol. 4. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences. 1954. p. 325. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
^ ^a ^b Karl Marx (September 2–7, 1872). "Report of the General Council, 5th IWMA Congress". The Hague, The Netherlands: marxists.org. Retrieved December 15, 2009.

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