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Karl Marx
Revolutionary socialist
For other people named Karl Marx, see Karl Marx (disambiguation).
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Karl Marx FRSA[1] | ||
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Karl Marx in 1875 | ||
| Born | (1818-05-05)5 May 1818 Trier, Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine, Kingdom of Prussia (now Trier, Germany) | |
| Died | 14 March 1883(1883-03-14) (aged 64) London, England, United Kingdom | |
| Resting place | Tomb of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, London, England, United Kingdom | |
| Residence | Germany, France, Belgium, United Kingdom | |
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| Spouse(s) | Jenny von Westphalen | |
| Children | 7, including Jenny, Laura, and Eleanor | |
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| Era | 19th-century philosophy | |
| Region | Western philosophy | |
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Main interests | Philosophy, economics, history, politics | |
Notable ideas | Marxist terminology, surplus value, contributions to the labour theory of value, class struggle, alienation and exploitation of the worker, materialist conception
Karl Marx, 1818-1883.German economist, philosopher and socialist revolutionary, founder of Marxian economics. Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 in the Rhineland city of Trier, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia. Marx was of German Jewish descent. His grandfather Marx Levi, had been a prominent rabbi in Trier. Karl's father, Heinrich Marx, a lawyer, had formally converted to Lutheran Christianity in 1824 to advance his legal career. Karl was his second son, but after the first died, became the eldest of the surviving brood of seven children (Karl had a younger brother and five sisters). Trier had been under French occupation during the revolutionary wars. Heinrich Marx was an ardent enthusiast of the French Enlightenment and great admirer of Voltaire and Rousseau, and gave young Karl a largely secular irreligious upbringing. The young Marx was also greatly influenced by the Baron Ludwig von Westphalen, a prominent Prussian aristocrat and official in Trier, the father of one of his school-friends. Von Westphalen
By Rolf HosfeldExcerpted by Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography by Rolf Hosfeld, Translated from the German by Bernard Heise Karl Marx was born May 5, 1818. As a young man he was a journalist and an editor for Rheinische Zeitung, a liberal-socialist newspaper published in Germany. The paper was previously edited by Adolf Friedrich Rutenberg, who favored opinionated feuilletons, before Marx replaced him and gained recognition for his practical, evidence-based approach. Moses Hess was the first communist Karl Marx personally encountered. Both were from the Rhineland, came from bourgeois families, and were under the influence of Hegel’s philosophy. Marx made an “imposing impression” on Hess upon their first acquaintance in September 1841. After their initial encounter Hess had the sense of having met the “greatest, perhaps the only real philosopher now living,” one who would soon—Hess was referring here to the lecture halls of Bonn University—“draw upon him the eyes of Germany.” Copyright ©airtory.pages.dev 2025 | |