Victor Dave

Victor Dave (25 February 1847 – 31 October 1922) was a Belgian editor and journalist best known for his work on anarchist publications and in the International Workingmen's Association.

He showed interest in freethinking and socialism in his youth and attended the University of Liège and Université libre de Bruxelles.

The Marxist socialist Paul Lafargue introduced Dave to the anarchist political thought of Proudhon at an 1869 international student congress in Liège.

At the former, Dave read the minority report supporting federative autonomy and voted against anarchist Bakunin's expulsion from the union.

Prominent anarchist Emma Goldman wrote of Dave being the most impressive man she met in fin de siècle Paris.