Theodor Schuster

 ( German Socialists ) 

Carl Wilhelm Theodor Schuster (born September 18, 1808, in Lüne-Moorfeld; died 1872) was a German jurist and physician. As a revolutionary, he was one of the prominent figures of the League of Outlaws, a utopian socialist organization of German émigrés in Paris.

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Biography Starting in 1829, Schuster worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Göttingen where he had obtained his Doctor of Law degree the same year.

After his involvement with the constitutionalist movement in the Kingdom of Hanover and the 1831 Göttingen Riots he had to flee Germany, going first to Strassbourg and 1832 to Paris. He became a socialist and a follower of the Swiss-born liberal economist Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi.

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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See also

• League of the Just, League of Outlaws' successor

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