Liebknecht

[ leep-knekht ]

noun

1. Karl [kah, r, l], 1871–1919, German socialist leader.
2. his father Wil·helm [vil, -helm], 1826–1900, German journalist and political leader.

Liebknecht

/ ˈliːpknɛçt /

noun

1. LiebknechtKarl18711919MGermanPOLITICS: socialist leaderPOLITICS: revolutionary Karl (karl). 1871–1919, German socialist leader: with Rosa Luxemburg he led an unsuccessful Communist revolt (1919) and was assassinated
2. LiebknechtWilhelm18261900MGermanPOLITICS: socialist leaderWRITING: journalist 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

Example Sentences

Liebknecht, for example, declared that he had never before experienced so great a disappointment.

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Marx was, so Liebknecht tells us, one of the first to recognize the importance of Darwin's investigations to sociology.

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"We spoke for months of nothing else but Darwin, and the revolutionizing power of his scientific conquests," says Liebknecht.

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"It was a terrible time, but it was grand nevertheless," wrote Liebknecht years afterward to Eleanor Marx.

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Wilhelm Liebknecht, then twenty-two years of age, who was in favor of Herwegh's project, wrote afterward of Marx's opposition.

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