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SCHWEITZER, See also:JEAN BAPTISTA VON (1833–1875) , See also:German politician and dramatic poet, was See also:born at See also:Frankfort-on-the-See also:Main on the 12th of See also:July 1833, of an old aristocratic See also:Catholic See also:family. He studied See also:law at See also:Berlin and See also:Heidelberg, and afterwards practised in his native See also:city. He was, however, from the first more interested in politics and literature than in law. He was attracted by the social democratic labour See also:movement, and after the See also:death of See also:Ferdinand See also:Lassalle in 1864, he became See also:president of the " See also:General Working-men's See also:Union of See also:Germany," and in this capacity edited the Sozialdemokrat, which brought him into frequent trouble with the Prussian See also:government. In 1867 he was elected to the See also:parliament of the See also:North German Federation, and on his failure to secure See also:election to the German Reichstag in 1871, he resigned the See also:presidency of the Labour Union, and retired from See also:political See also:life. Schweitzer composed a number of dramas and comedies, of which several for a while had considerable success. Among them may be mentioned See also:Alcibiades (Frankfort, 1858); See also:Friedrich See also:Barbarossa (Frankfort, 1858); See also:Canossa (Berlin, 1872); See also:Die Darwinianer (Frankfort, 1875); Die Eidechse (Frankfort, 1876); and Epidemisch (Frankfort, 1876). He also wrote one political novel, Lucinde See also:oder Kapital and Arbeil (Frankfort, 1864).

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