Abram Combe

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Abram Combe (born January 15, 1785 in Edinburgh , † August 11, 1827 ) was a British early socialist .

Life

Abram Combe was the son of a beer brewer, learned the tannery after completing some higher education and from 1807 ran this trade successfully in his hometown. In 1820 he met the early socialist Robert Owen together with his brother, the phrenologist George Combe . He then turned to Owen's apprenticeship after learning about its facilities in New Lanark . Since then he has appeared as an enthusiastic supporter of the co-operation movement that Owen had initiated, but without going over to full communism . He became a philanthropist and first founded a Cooperative Society in Edinburgh , but it failed. Nevertheless, in 1825 he and other like-minded people founded another socialist-cooperative community, a kind of phalanstère , on the Orbiston estate nine miles east of Glasgow on the Calder River , which he dubbed the First Society of Adherents to Divine Revelation . It did not appeal to the strict communists, however, and disintegrated soon after Combes' death on August 11, 1827.

Combe wrote, inter alia, Metaphorical Sketches of the Old and New System (Edinburgh 1823), in which he attempted to explain Owen's social theory, also The Religious Creed of the New System (1824), The Sphere of Joint Stock Companies (Edinburgh 1825) and gave from 1825 by 1827 published a special journal on Orbiston under the title The Register for the First Society of Adherents to Divine Revelation at Orbiston .

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SURNAME Combe, Abram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British early socialist
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1827