Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wilhelm Liebknecht (29 March 1826 7 August 1900) was a German social democrat, one of the founders of the SPD and father of Karl Liebknecht and Theodor Liebknecht. up with relatives after the death of his parents in 1832; from 1832 to 1842, he went to school at the Gymnasium of Gießen, then began studying philology, theology and philosophy in Gießen, Berlin and Marburg. After working briefly as a teacher at the Musterschule of Karl Fröbel, the radical nephew of Friedrich Fröbel in Zürich and as a correspondent for the "Mannheimer Abendzeitung", Liebknecht took part in the revolutionary fights in Paris in February 1848; in September the same year, he was arrested in Baden and remanded following his involvement in the republican uprising of Gustav von Struve. Following his release in May 1849, he became a member of the Badische Volkswehr and an adjutant ofStruve and fought in the Reichverfassungskämpfe ("federal constitution wars"); after the revolutionaries'' defeat, he escaped to Switzerland and became a member of the Genfer Arbeiterverein (Worker''s Association of Geneva), where he met Friedrich Engels.