Arnold Ruge
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Arnold Ruge (13 September 1802 - 31 December 1880) was a German philosopher and political writer.
Born in Bergen, he studied in Heidelberg. As an advocate of a free and united Germany he was jailed for 5 years in 1825 in the fortress of Kolberg. Moving to Halle on his release, he published a number of plays, translations of ancient Greek texts and became associated with the Young Hegelians.
In Paris, Ruge co-edited the Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher with Karl Marx briefly before coordinating the activities of the extreme left in the revolutionary movement of 1848.
In 1850 he moved to Brighton to live as a teacher and writer, limiting his political involvement to the public support of Prussia between 1866 and 1870.