Karl Höchberg (8 September 1853 – 21 June 1885) was a German social-reformist writer, publisher and economist, of Jewish family background, who acted under the pseudonyms Dr. Ludwig Richter and R.F. Seifert. In 1876, he became a member of the

Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany The Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, SDAP) was a Marxist socialist political party in the North German Confederation during unification. Founded in Eisenach in 1869, the SDAP e ...

(SDAP). From 1877 to 1878, he was responsible for editing the ''Zukunft'' ("''Future''") magazine. He was in exile in

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

from 1878 onwards, first to avoid

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to the Prussian military, and then due to the

anti-socialist laws The Anti-Socialist Laws or Socialist Laws (german: Sozialistengesetze; officially , approximately "Law against the public danger of Social Democratic endeavours") were a series of acts of the parliament of the German Empire, the first of which was ...

.Eduard Bernstein, My Years of Exile, CHAPTER II, In and about Lugano thirty years ago
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Eduard Bernstein Eduard Bernstein (; 6 January 1850 – 18 December 1932) was a German social democratic Marxist theorist and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Bernstein had held close association to Karl Marx and Friedric ...

and

Karl Kautsky Karl Johann Kautsky (; ; 16 October 1854 – 17 October 1938) was a Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theorist. Kautsky was one of the most authoritative promulgators of orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels in ...

were his secretaries and pupils in Zurich. Afterwards, between 1879 and 1881, he was editor of the ''Jahrbuch für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik'' ("''Yearbook for Social Science and Social Politics''").

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CARTA DE KARL MARX a Friedrich Engels, 1° de Agosto de 1877 (LETTER FROM KARL MARX to Friedrich Engels, August 1st 1877)
(''Portuguese'') {{DEFAULTSORT:Hochberg, Karl German economists German male non-fiction writers German publishers (people) German social democrats Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians Politicians from Frankfurt 1853 births 1885 deaths