Edgard Leuenroth (October 31, 1881 – September 28, 1968) was a Brazilian
journalist
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,
publisher
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and
writer
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, who became famous for his documentation of the country's earliest
social movements
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, particularly the
communist
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,
socialist
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and
anarchist
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worker's and intellectual's activities and movements.
External links
Edgard Leuenroth Pagefrom the Anarchist Encyclopedia
1881 births
1968 deaths
Brazilian journalists
Brazilian male writers
Brazilian people of German descent
Brazilian anarchists
20th-century journalists
Print journalists
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