Charles Longuet

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Charles Félix César Longuet (born February 14, 1839 in Caen , Département Calvados , † August 5, 1903 in Paris ) was a French journalist and Proudhonist .

Charles Longuet, 1871

Life

Charles Longuet was the son of a hosiery dealer and Felicitas Longuet . He was editor-in-chief of La rive Gauche (1864–1866). In July 1866 he was imprisoned for eight months in Bagnères-de-Bigorre in the French Pyrenees .

As a prominent member of the socialist labor movement in France and a supporter of Pierre-Joseph Proudhons , Longuet sat on the General Council of the First International (1866–67, 1871–72). He was proposed on January 9, 1866 by Hermann Jung and Eugène Dupont and elected on January 15. He served as corresponding secretary for Belgium (1866), delegate for Lausanne (1867), Brussels (1868), the London Conference (1871/1872).

As a member of the Paris Commune , he had to flee to England after its suppression. On March 17, 1883, Charles Longuet was one of the speakers at Marx's funeral in Highgate Cemetery . Longuet was one of the editors of the Journal officiel de la République française , the official organ of the Central Committee of the National Guard (March 20 to May 24, 1871).

family

On October 9, 1872, he married Jenny Caroline Marx in London, the eldest daughter of Jenny and Karl Marx , in the presence of Friedrich Engels and Albert Theiz .

Together they had five sons and one daughter:

  • Charles Félicien (September 2, 1873 - July 20, 1874)
  • Jean-Laurent-Fréderick, short Jean , called Johnny (born May 10, 1876 - September 11, 1938)
  • Harry Michel, called Harra (July 4, 1878 - March 20, 1883)
  • Edgar, called Wolf (* August 18, 1879 - December 12, 1950)
  • Marcel (April 1881 - 1949)
  • Jenny (born September 16, 1882; † 1952)

The mother Jenny Caroline died in January 1883. The sons Jean Longuet and Edgar Longuet were also involved as French socialists.

Works

  • Suive de la Dynasty of La Palisse . Imprimerie A. Mertens et Fils, Bruxelles 1865 digitized
  • Editor: La Rive Gauche. Journal international de la jeune république . A. Fischlin, Bruxelles 1865–1866 (May 14, 1865 - August 5, 1866)
  • Fédération et mutualité. Discours prononcé au Congrès de la Paix . Vaney, Genève 1867
  • Karl Marx: Salaires, price, profits. Traduction by Charles Longuet . Girad, Paris 1899 Edition 1912 digitized
  • Karl Marx: La commune de Paris. Traduction, préface et notes de Charles Longuet . G. Jacques, Paris 1901 (Bibliothèque d'études socialistes 2)

literature

  • Auguste Rogeard: Les Propos de Labiénus et à propos de Labiénus. Suive de la Dynasty of La Palisse par Ch. Longuet . Libr. Et agenee de l'impr. univ., Londres 1865
  • Eugène Fournière: Charles Longuet , In: Socialist monthly books . 7 = 9 (1903), issue 9, pp. 693-695 digitized
  • Robert-Jean Longuet : Karl Marx - my great grandfather . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1979, p. 156 ff.
  • Galina Ivanova: Who translated Marx '' The civil war in France 'into French? A note on MEGA 2 I / 22 . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode 1994 . Argument, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-88619-745-X , pp. 232-234

Web links

Commons : Charles Longuet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Yvonne Kapp : Eleanor Marx. Family Life (1855-1883) . Lawrence and Wishart, London 1972, pp. 142 and 145.
  2. ↑ Marx-Engels Complete Edition. Division I Volume 20, pp. 189 and 1179.
  3. ^ International Institute of Social History : Belgian section International Working Men's Association Collection
  4. ↑ GM Stekloff : The Lausanne Congress of The International ( Memento of the original of September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: History of The First International. Martin Lawrence, London 1928 (chap. 8)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marx.org
  5. ↑ GM Stekloff: Hague The Hague Congress ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: History of The First International. Martin Lawrence, London 1928 (chap. 14)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marx.org
  6. ↑ Friedrich Engels: The funeral of Karl Marx . In: The Social Democrat . No. 13 of March 22, 1883. ( Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe . Department I. Volume 25, p. 411.)
  7. ^ Yvonne Kapp: Eleanor Marx. Family Life (1855-1883) . Lawrence and Wishart, London 1972, pp. 153 and 162.
  8. ↑ He is buried in the grave of his grandfather in Highgate Cemetery.
  9. ^ Family Marx private . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-05-004118-8 , p. 418
personal data
SURNAME Longuet, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Longuet, Charles Félix César (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist and Proudhonist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Caen
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1903
Place of death Paris