Friedrich Ludwig Weidig

Friedrich Ludwig Weidig
Weidig
Born(1791-02-15)15 February 1791
Oberkleen district, Langgöns, northwest Wetterau
Died23 February 1837(1837-02-23) (aged 46)
OccupationsProtestant theologian, pastor, activist, teacher and journalist

Friedrich Ludwig Weidig (15 February 1791 – 23 February 1837) was a German Protestant theologian, pastor, activist, teacher and journalist. Initially working as a teacher in Butzbach, he then spent a short time as a pastor in Ober-Gleen, a district of Giessen. In what is now Hesse and the Middle Rhine, he was one of the main figures of the Vormärz and a pioneer of the 1848 Revolution.

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