Ossip Zetkin
Ossip Zetkin , Russian Осип Цеткин (* 1850 in Odessa , † January 29, 1889 in Paris ) was a Russian revolutionary and socialist. He was Clara Zetkin's partner .
Life
Zetkin came from a Jewish merchant family from Odessa . He was active in the Narodniki movement in Russia . Politically persecuted, he fled to Leipzig . There he worked as a carpenter and joined the social democratic movement. In Leipzig he met Clara Eißner (known as Zetkin) in a student group. In 1880, at the time of the Socialist Act, he was arrested at a meeting with August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht and expelled from Leipzig as an “annoying foreigner”. He went to Paris, where he lived with Clara Eißner without being married to her. They had two sons, Maxim Zetkin (1883-1965) and Kostja Zetkin (1885-1980). Clara Eißner also used the name.
Zetkin was involved in the preparation of the International Workers' Congress (1889) but died of tuberculosis in early 1889 .
Fonts
- The barefoot gang: a contribution to the knowledge of the situation of the working classes in Russia . 1885 ( digitized version )
- Socialism in France since the Paris Commune . Berlin, 1889
- Character heads from the French labor movement , Berlin, 1892
Web links
- Literature by and about Ossip Zetkin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography of the Federal Archives
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zetkin, Osip |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Цеткин, Осип (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian revolutionary and socialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Odessa |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1889 |
| Place of death | Paris |