Theodor Ludwig Greiner was a

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-born lawyer who held democratic beliefs. Thus, he became a member of the Palatinate Provisional Government in 1849. After the government was crushed by the

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authorities, Greiner fled to Switzerland and then to the United States.Biographical note contained in the ''Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Volume 10'' (International Publishers: New York, 1978) p. 721.

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