What is Ferdinand Lassalle?
{{Infobox philosopher |region = [[Western philosophy]], [[German philosophy]] |era = [[19th-century philosophy]] |image = Ferdinand Lassalle.jpg |caption = (1825–64) |birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1825|04|11}} |birth_place = [[Breslau]], [[Province of Silesia]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1864|08|31|1825|04|11}} |death_place = [[Carouge]], [[Switzerland]] |resting_place = Old Jewish Cemetery, Wrocław |residence = |nationality = Germany |school_tradition= [[Social Democracy]] |signature = |main_interests = Politics, economics, philosophy, history |influences = |influenced = |alma_mater = |notable_ideas = | birth_name = Ferdinand Johann Gottlieb Lassal }} '''Ferdinand Lassalle''' (11 April 1825 — 31 August 1864) was a [[Germany|German]] [[jurist]] and [[socialism|socialist]] [[politician]]. Lassalle was born in [[Breslau]]. His father sent him to a [[business]] [[school]] in [[Leipzig]]. Lassalle changed to the [[University of Breslau]]. He later studied in [[Berlin]]. He studied [[Philosophy]], [[Philology]] ([[Latin]] and [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greek]]) and [[Law]]. Lassalle took part in the [[revolution]]s of 1848-49. He was put into [[prison]] and later banned from Berlin. He lived in [[Düsseldorf]] that time. In 1859, Lassalle returned to Berlin. Lassalle was a [[liberal]] politician in the early 1860s. The liberals had some struggles with [[Otto von Bismarck]]. Lassalle thought about the living conditions of the [[working class]]. He found that the idea of self-help would not help the working class people. This led him to become a member of the [[Communist league]]. There he was in opposition to [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]]. Lassalle founded the [[Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein]] (General German Workers' Association, ADAV) in 1863. This [[political party|party]] later became the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany]] (SPD). Lassalle was killed in a duel. {{commons}} {{DE