Stanisław Mendelson

Polish Socialist Party (PPS) Social Democrats 1858–1913 ○ Died

Émigré socialist who published the first Polish socialist magazines and drafted the first programme of the PPS

Born in Warsaw in 1858, he emigrated to Switzerland in 1878 and later lived in France and Britain. He co-founded and edited the first Polish socialist magazines, Równość, Przedświt and Walka Klas. Charged in the Kraków trial of socialists in 1880, he organised groups in Poznań in 1882–1884 and was imprisoned by the Prussian authorities. One of the main authors of the first programme of the Polish Socialist Party, he was a Polish delegate at the Zurich congress of 1893. He died in Warsaw in 1913.

Also known as: Stanislaw Mendelson