Karl Marx (World Philosophers and Their Works)
Early Life
Karl Marx was born into a Jewish family in the city of Trier in the southern Rhineland area. By the time the Rhineland was rejoined, after the Napoleonic Wars, to Protestant Prussia in 1814, his father, a public lawyer, had converted to Christianity. In 1830, the young Marx entered the Trier secondary school and pursued the traditional humanities curriculum. In the fall of 1835, he entered the University of Bonn as a law student, but he left the following year to enroll at the University of Berlin. His studies were concentrated on law, history, and the works of the...
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