August Palm
August Theodor Palm (born February 5, 1849 in Församling Sallerup , Malmöhus län ; † March 14, 1922 in Stockholm ) was one of the first Swedish social democrats and agitator.
Life
August Palm was a trained tailor who worked in Germany and Denmark for several years . There he came into contact with socialism , which he joined. Expelled from Germany for socialist agitation , August Palm moved to Denmark.
After an application for naturalization in Denmark had been rejected, August Palm went to Sweden in the autumn of 1881 and began an agitation journey through Sweden in Malmö , during which he spread socialist ideas. In 1882 he founded the first social democratic newspaper Folkviljan (People's Will) in Malmö .
In 1885 Palm moved to Stockholm , where he founded the newspaper Social Democrats. In 1889 he was a founding member of the Social Democratic Labor Party , but disputes with other party colleagues, u. a. with Hjalmar Branting , gradually led to increasing isolation within the party.
Works (selection)
- Några drag ur mitt lif . 1899
- Ögonblicksbilder från en tripp till Amerika . 1901
- Nemesis (acting). 1903
- Ur en agitators liv . Prisma-Verlag, Stockholm 1970 (repr. Of the Stockholm 1904 edition)
literature
- August Palm . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 259 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Palm, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Palm, August Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish social democrat and agitator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Församling Sallerup , Malmöhus län |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1922 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |