Carl Wilhelm Theodor Schuster (born September 18, 1808 in Lüne-Moorfeld; died 1872) was a German

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and physician. As a

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, he was one of the prominent figures of the ''League of Outlaws'', a

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organization of German émigrés in Paris.

Biography

Starting in 1829, Schuster worked as an adjunct professor at the

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where he had obtained his

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degree the same year. After his involvement with the constitutionalist movement in the

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and the 1831 Göttingen Riots he had to flee Germany, going first to

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and 1832 to Paris. He became a socialist and a follower of the Swiss-born liberal economist

Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (also known as Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi) (; 9 May 1773 – 25 June 1842), whose real name was Simonde, was a Swiss historian and political economist, who is best known for his works on French and ...

. Schuster joined the League of Outlaws and became one of the League's leaders, editing its journal, ''The Outlaw'', from 1835 on. He gave financial aid to the German refugees in the 1840s.Biographical note contained in the ''Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Volume 38'' (International Publishers: New York, 1982) pp. 668–669.

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