LASSALLE, FERDINAND

born April 11, 1825, Breslau, Prussia [now Wroclaw, Pol.] died Aug. 31, 1864, near Geneva, Switz. leading spokesman for German socialism, a disciple of Karl Marx (from 1848), and one of the founders of the German labour movement. Additional reading Eduard Bernstein, Ferdinand Lassalle As a Social Reformer (1893, reissued 1970); Georg Brandes, Ferdinand Lassalle (1911, reprinted 1970); David Footman, The Primrose Path: A Life of Ferdinand Lassalle (1946; also published as Ferdinand Lassalle, Romantic Revolutionary, 1947, reprinted 1969).