Viktor Külföldi, real name Jakab Mayer-Rubcsics, born Jacob Mayer () (1844 March 5, 1894) was a Hungarian

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, and lecturer. Born in Thalheim, Germany (or Switzerland?), he was known in his adopted country by the alias ( Hungarian for "foreigner"). In 1871 he became a member of the International Working Men's Association. Together with (1842–1907) and , he co-founded the first Hungarian Socialist organization, the (). For organizing a

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by the GWMU, he, among others, was arrested (18712) and accused of

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; he was eventually acquitted because of lack of evidence. In 1877 Külföldi founded the

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newspaper ("People's Voice"). He retired from the worker's movement in 1890 and died in

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in 1894.

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