Viktor Külföldi

The native form of this personal name is Külföldi Viktor. This article uses the Western name order.

Viktor Külföldi
Born	Jakab Mayer-Rubcsics 1844 Thalheim, Germany
Died	March 5, 1894(1894-03-05) Budapest, Hungary
Pen name	Viktor Külföldi
Occupation	Journalist, lecturer
Language	Hungarian
Nationality	Hungarian
Subject	Social democracy

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

Born in Thalheim, Germany (or Switzerland). he was known in his adopted country by the alias "Külföldi" (Hungarian for "foreigner"). In 1871 he became a member of the International Working Men's Association. Together with [[{{{1}}}]] (1842–1907) and [[{{{1}}}]], he co-founded of the first Hungarian Socialist organization, the [[{{{1}}}]] (Hungarian: az Általános Munkásegylet). For organizing a strike by the GWMU, he, among others, was arrested (1871–2) and accused of high treason; he was eventually acquitted because of lack of evidence.

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