Viktor Külföldi

Viktor Külföldi, real name Jakab Mayer-Rubcsics, born Jacob Mayer (1844 March 5, 1894) was a Hungarian Socialist, journalist, and lecturer.

Born in Thalheim, Germany ), he was known in his adopted country by the alias (Hungarian for "foreigner"). In 1871 he became a member of the International Working Men's Association. For organizing a strike by the GWMU, he, among others, was arrested (18712) and accused of high treason; he was eventually acquitted because of lack of evidence.

In 1877 Külföldi founded the Social-democratic newspaper ("People's Voice"). He retired from the worker's movement in 1890 and died in Budapest in 1894.

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