# Stephen Born

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{{Short description|German typesetter and revolutionary}}
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'''Stephen Born'''  (né '''Simon Buttermilch'''; 28 December 1824 – 4 May 1898) was a German typesetter<ref name="Nimtz2000">{{cite book|last=Nimtz|first=August H.|title=Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vIjvSd_lIcAC&pg=PA46|accessdate=21 October 2014|date=2000-03-18|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=9780791444894|pages=46–}}</ref> and revolutionary.  As a founder of the General German Workers' Brotherhood, he created the first national trade union organization in the German workers' movement.

He was born in [Lissa](/source/Leszno), [Prussia](/source/Prussia)n [Province of Posen](/source/Province_of_Posen) (Leszno, Poland) in 1824 and moved to [Berlin](/source/Berlin) in 1840. Born was a member of the [Communist League](/source/Communist_League), but his philosophy was more inclined toward [reformism](/source/reformism) during the revolution of 1848–49.  Born was the supreme commander of the [insurgency](/source/May_Uprising_in_Dresden) in the town of [Dresden](/source/Dresden) in 1849.  After the defeat of the uprisings of 1849, Born left the worker's movement.  He died in 1898 in [Basel](/source/Basel), [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland).<ref>[https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd118513648.html#ndbcontent biography] {{in lang|de}}</ref><ref>Biographical note contained in the ''Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Volume 10'' (International Publishers: New York, 1978) p. 713.</ref>

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