death_place death_date birth_place nationality birth_date spouse image article_title occupation
new york city 15 october 1899 copenhagen , denmark american 13 july 1846 beulah a. gronlund gronlund-laurence . jpg laurence gronlund
 writer , lecturer , and political activist
laurence gronlund

laurence gronlund -lrb- 1846 - 1899 -rrb- was a danish-born american lawyer , writer , lecturer , and political activist .
gronlund is best remembered for his pioneering work in adapting the international socialism of karl marx and ferdinand lassalle to the american idiom in his popular 1884 book , `` the cooperative commonwealth , '' and for his influence upon the thinking of utopian novelist edward bellamy , newspaper publisher julius wayland , and the american socialist movement of the 1880s and 1890s .
