Karl Marx
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Government and Politics, Philosophy, Literature, Publishing, Economics
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Philosophers, Class Conflict
- Curriculum: 19th Century European History, German History
Article abstract: Marx’s ideas concerning modes of economic distribution, social class, and the developmental patterns of history have profoundly influenced theories in philosophical and economic thought and have helped shape the political structure of the modern world.
Early Life
Karl Marx was born into a Jewish family in the city of Trier in the southern Rhineland area. When 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...
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