Karl marx biography papers

Marx-Engels Biography

by
Frederick Engels

This short biography is based on Engels’ version written at the end of July 1868 for the German literary newspaper Die Gartenlaube, whose editors decided against using it.

Written: Engels rewrote it around July 28, 1869;
First Published: in Die Zukunft, No.

185, August 11, 1869;
Translated: by Joan and Trevor Walmsley;
Transcribed: for the Internet by Zodiac;
Html Markup: by Brian Baggins.

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Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier, where he received a classical education. He studied jurisprudence at Bonn and later in Berlin, where, however, his preoccupation with philosophy soon turned him away from law.

In 1841, after spending five years in the “metropolis of intellectuals,” he returned to Bonn intending to habilitate. At that time the first “New Era” was in vogue in Prussia. Frederick William IV had declared his love of a loyal opposition, and attempts were being made in variou