Jean-Baptiste Troppmann
Encyclopedia
Jean-Baptiste Troppmann was a French
spree killer
born in 1848 and executed on January 19, 1870.
His crimes are referenced in Mikhail Bakunin's
book God and the State
, and his execution was witnessed and written about by Ivan Turgenev
.
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
spree killer
Spree killer
A spree killer is someone who embarks on a murderous assault on two or more victims in a short time in multiple locations. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders."-Definition:According to the...
born in 1848 and executed on January 19, 1870.
His crimes are referenced in Mikhail Bakunin's
Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a well-known Russian revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism. He has also often been called the father of anarchist theory in general. Bakunin grew up near Moscow, where he moved to study philosophy and began to read the French Encyclopedists,...
book God and the State
God and the State
God and the State is the best-known literary work of Russian anarchist, Mikhail Bakunin.-Composition:God and the State was written between February and March 1871. It was originally written as Part II of a greater work that was going to be called The Knouto-Germanic Empire and the Social Revolution...
, and his execution was witnessed and written about by Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century...
.