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JOHANN JOSEPH, German- American anarchist; bor Bavaria, 1846; in Cincinnati, born in Augsburg, in 1906. In his earlier years he served apprenticeship as a bookbinder and traveled over Europe as a journeyman of his trade. In 1874, having meanwhile become a participant in party politics, he became a member of the Reichstag, from Chemnitz, and at the same time assumed editorship of the "Freie Presse" in Berlin, a Socialist publication. His strong leanings toward the Bakunin caused him to be expelled from the Socialist party in 1879, when he the anarchist theories of founded the anarchist organ, "Die Freiheit." After serving a term of imprisonment for eulogizing the assassins of the Russian Emperor, Alexander II., he came ment for eulogizing the assassins of the heit." After serving a term of imprison- founded the anarchist organ, "Die Freito the United States in 1882. He immediately re-established his discontinued to the United States in 1882. He imme- "Freiheit" in New York City. Henceforward he became known as an anarchist agitator.