Karl Marx (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Karl Heinrich Marx was the famous theorist who laid the foundation of twentieth century communism. He was the son of a Jewish lawyer who had his practice in Treves and who became a convert to Christianity while Karl Marx was a small child. The entire family was baptized and received into Christianity in 1824, when Karl was six years old. As a boy he attended the schools in Trier. Beginning his university career in 1835, he attended the German universities at Bonn and Berlin, where he studied law, history, and philosophy. In 1842 he received the degree of doctor of philosophy from the...
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