Louis Kugelmann

Louis Kugelmann

Louis Kugelmann, or Ludwig Kugelmann (February 19, 1828 in Lemförde January 9, 1902 in Hannover), was a German gynecologist, social democratic thinker and activist, and confidant of Marx and Engels.

Personal life

Kugelmann married Gertrud Oppenheim (born 27 January 1839 in Bonn; died 1920 in Wiesbaden). They had a daughter Franziska Kugelmann (9 October 1858 in Hannover 31 August 1939 in Wiesbaden).[1]

He met with Karl Marx several times, visited him in Hannover, and exchanged letters with him and Friedrich Engels during the period 1862 to 1893. He was a member of the International Workingmen's Association and later the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

Works

Notes

  1. Letters from the town archives of Hannover and Wiesbaden.

References

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/12/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.