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A Short Biography of Karl Marx

Author Name:

Karl Marx

Born As:

Karl Heinrich Marx

Other Names:

Born:

5 May 1818

Died:

14 Mar 1883




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Philosopher, political economist, historian, and revolutionary                          
Selected Works:

Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right - 1843
On the Jewish Question - 1843
Notes on James Mill - 1844
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
The Holy Family - 1845
Theses on Feuerbach - 1845
The German Ideology - 1845
The Poverty of Philosophy  - 847
Wage-Labor and Capital - 1847
Manifesto of the Communist Party - 1848
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon  - 852
Grundrisse - 1857
Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy - 1859
Writings on the U.S. Civil War - 1861
Theories of Surplus Value - 3 volumes - 1862
Value - Price and Profit - 1865
Capital - Volume I - Das Kapital - 1867
The Civil War in France - 1871
Critique of the Gotha Program - 1875
Notes on Wagner - 1883
Capital - Volume II - posthumously published by Engels - 1885
Capital - Volume III - posthumously published by Engels - 1894
                          
Mother Henrietta Pressburg
Father - born Herschel Mordechai, and changed his name to Heinrich -  Karl was the third of nine children -  Moritz, Sophie, Hermann, Henriette, Louise, Emilie and Karoline.
Spouse  Jenny von Westphalen                          
In July 2005 Marx was the winner of the 'Greatest Philosopher of All Time' poll by listeners of the BBC Radio 4 series In Our Time.