Leo Jogiches
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Leo Jogiches as a young man, circa 1880s.
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17 June 1867 Vilnius, Vilna Governorate, Northwestern Krai, Russian Empire |
| Died | 10 March 1919 (aged 51) Berlin, Germany |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Known for | Marxist revolutionary |
| Partner(s) | Rosa Luxemburg |
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| Battles/wars | German Revolution of 1918–19 |
Lev "Leo" Jogiches (Russian: Лев "Лео" Йогихес; "yū-gē'-khěs"; 1867 – 1919), also commonly known by the party name Jan Tyszka (Russian: Ян Тышка), was a Marxist revolutionary active in Lithuania, Poland, and Germany. He was a founder of the political party known as The Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland (main forerunner of the Communist Party of Poland) in 1893 and a key figure in the underground Spartacus League in Germany (main forerunner of the Communist Party of Germany) during the years of World War I.
For many years the personal companion and a close political ally of internationally famous revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, Jogiches was assassinated in Berlin by right wing paramilitary forces in March 1919 while investigating Luxemburg's murder some weeks before.
Lev Jogiches was born to a wealthy ethnic Jewish family in Vilnius, Lithuania, then part of the Russian empire, on June 17, 1867. Little is known of his childhood years, although it is perhaps instructive that Jogiches spoke no Hebrew and had no more than a rudimentary grasp of Yiddish, indicating a closer familiarity with other regional languages and cultures than those of his ethnic roots.
As a young man of 18, Jogiches founded one of the earliest underground socialist study circles in Vilnius, its 1885 origin predating the foundation of the first mass international socialist organization in the Russian empire by a dozen years. Using the first of many pseudonyms, Liofka (little Lev), Jogiches attained an almost legendary local status for his tenacious dedication to the anti-Tsarist cause. This commitment led to two arrests and short terms in jail, in both 1888 and 1889.
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