Marx, Karl, 1818-1883

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From the description of Letter of Karl Marx, 1873. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454371

Born 1818 in Trier, Prussia; studied at the University of Bonn, 1835-1836, and the University of Berlin, 1836-1841; contributor to and editor of the Cologne liberal democratic newspaper, the Rheinische Zeitung , 1842; following marriage to Jenny von Westphalen, moved to Paris, where he became a revolutionary and communist; co-editor, with Arnold Ruge, of a new review, the Deutsch-französische Jahrbücher (German-French Yearbooks), 1843-1845, during which time he met Friedrich Engels; expelled from France, 1845, moved to Belgium, and renounced Prussian nationality; wrote and published Die heilige Familie (1845) with Engels; in Jun 1847 joined a secret society in London, the League of the Just, which afterwards became the Communist League, for whom he and Engels wrote a pamphlet entitled The Communist Manifesto , (1848); returned to Prussia, 1848, where he founded the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in 1849, and used the newspaper to urge a constitutional democracy and war with Russia; became leader of the Workers' Union and organized the first Rhineland Democratic Congress in August 1848; banished in May 1849, and moved to London; European correspondent for the New York Tribune , 1851-1862, though for the most part he and his family lived in poverty; published his first book on economic theory, Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie (A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy), 1859; member of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association, 1864-1876; published Das Kapital, Berlin 1867 (the second and third volumes, unfinished by Marx, were edited by Engels and published in 1885 and 1894); died 1883.

From the guide to the MARX, Karl, 1818-1883, communist, economist and philosopher, 1845-1846, (British Library of Political and Economic Science)

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referencedIn	[Karl Marx : pamphlet collection] [microform].	Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library
referencedIn	[Karl Marx : pamphlet collection].	Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library
referencedIn	[Literature on Marxism, socialism, capitalism, Karl Marx and other political and social philosophers. Part 1].	Library of Congress
referencedIn	[Literature on Marxism, socialism, capitalism, Karl Marx and other political and social philosophers. Part 2].	Library of Congress
referencedIn	Adoratskiĭ, V. V. (Vladimir Viktorovich), 1878-1945. 880-01 Adoratskiĭ Vladimir Viktorovich (1878-1945). Fond 559, 1877-1978, 1878-1962.	Rosarchiv, Federal Archive SVS of Russia
referencedIn	Bachtiar, Harsya W. The social system : K. Marx and T. Parsons / by Harsja W. Bachtiar.	Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn	Balz, Albert G. A. The value doctrine of Karl Marx [manuscript], 1943.	University of Virginia. Library
referencedIn	Bendix, Reinhard. Reinhard Bendix papers, 1929-1998.	University at Albany, University Libraries
referencedIn	Bernstein, Eduard, 1850-1932. 880-01 Bernstein Eduard (1850-1932). Fond 204, 1878-1929.	Rosarchiv, Federal Archive SVS of Russia
referencedIn	Bertram David Wolfe papers, 1903-1999	Hoover Institution Archives

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associatedWith	Adoratskiĭ, V. V. (Vladimir Viktorovich), 1878-1945.
associatedWith	Allen, James S.
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associatedWith	Bachtiar, Harsya W.
associatedWith	Balz, Albert G. A.
associatedWith	Bendix, Reinhard.
associatedWith	Bernstein, Eduard, 1850-1932.
associatedWith	Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
associatedWith	Borne, Ludwig, 1786-1837
associatedWith	Budenz, Louis F. (Louis Francis), 1891-1972.