Liebknecht

[ leep-knekht ]

/ ˈlip knɛxt /

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noun

Karl

[kahrl], /kɑrl/, 1871–1919, German socialist leader.

his father, Wil·helm

[vil-helm], /ˈvɪl hɛlm/, 1826–1900, German journalist and political leader.

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How to use Liebknecht in a sentence

Liebknecht, for example, declared that he had never before experienced so great a disappointment.
Karl Marx|Achille Loria
Marx was, so Liebknecht tells us, one of the first to recognize the importance of Darwin's investigations to sociology.
Socialism|John Spargo
"We spoke for months of nothing else but Darwin, and the revolutionizing power of his scientific conquests," says Liebknecht.
Socialism|John Spargo
"It was a terrible time, but it was grand nevertheless," wrote Liebknecht years afterward to Eleanor Marx.
Socialism|John Spargo

Wilhelm Liebknecht, then twenty-two years of age, who was in favor of Herwegh's project, wrote afterward of Marx's opposition.
Violence and the Labor Movement|Robert Hunter

British Dictionary definitions for Liebknecht

Liebknecht

/ (German ˈliːpknɛçt) /

noun

Karl (karl). 1871–1919, German socialist leader: with Rosa Luxemburg he led an unsuccessful Communist revolt (1919) and was assassinated

his father, Wilhelm (ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1826–1900, German socialist leader and journalist, a founder (1869) of what was to become (1891) the German Social Democratic Party

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