Deutsche Brüsseler Zeitung

Deutsche Brüsseler Zeitung 

a newspaper of the democratic opposition founded by German émigrés in Brussels; it appeared semiweekly from Jan. 1, 1847, to Feb. 27, 1848.

First dominated by petit bourgeois radicals, the newspaper was later used by its contributors W. Wolff and G. Weerth for the dissemination of revolutionary proletarian ideas. From Sept. 12, 1847, K. Marx and F. Engels were regular contributors to the Deutsche Brüsseler Zeitung;they soon took editorial control. With the approach of the revolution, the newspaper was transformed under their influence into an organ of revolutionary communist propaganda, in effect becoming the official paper of the Communist League. A number of works by Marx and Engels were originally published in the Deutsche Briisseler Zeitung (see K. Marx and F. Engels, Sochineniia, 2nd ed., vol. 4).

REFERENCES

Engels, F. “K istorii Soiuza kommunistov.” In K. Marx and F. Engels, Sock, 2nd ed., vol. 21.
Karl Marks: Biografiia. Moscow, 1966.
Gol’man, L. I. “Publitsisticheskaia deiatel’nost’ Marksa i Engel’sa pered revoliutsiei 1848–1849 godov.” In Iz istorii formirovaniia i razvitiia marksizma. Moscow, 1959.
Stepanova, E. A. , and E. P. Kandel’. “Iz istorii ideinoi bor’by ν nemetskom demokraticheskom dvizhenii 40-kh godov XIX veka.” Voprosy istorii, 1955, no. 8.
Förder, H. Marx und Engels am Vorabend der Revolution. Berlin, 1960.

L. I. GOL’MAN