Viktor Külföldi


Viktor Külföldi, real name Jakab Mayer-Rubcsics, born Jacob Mayer was a Hungarian Socialist, journalist, and lecturer.
Born in Thalheim, Germany, he was known in his adopted country by the alias "Külföldi".
In 1871 he became a member of the International Working Men's Association. Together with and, he co-founded the first Hungarian Socialist organization, the . For organizing a strike by the GWMU, he, among others, was arrested and accused of high treason; he was eventually acquitted because of lack of evidence.
In 1877 Külföldi founded the Social-democratic newspaper Népszava. He retired from the worker's movement in 1890 and died in Budapest in 1894.

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