Karl Marx

By georgiesangri
  • Childhood and early education

    Childhood and early education

    Karl Marx was born on 5 May 1818 in Trier, Kingdom of Prussia to Heinrich Marx and Henrietta Pressburg (1788–1863).
  • What was it

    What was it

    Was a German philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist

  • Studies

    Young Karl was privately educated, by Heinrich Marx, until 1830, when he entered Trier High School

  • University of Bonn

    In October 1835 at the age of 17, Marx travelled to the University of Bonn wishing to study philosophy and literature
  • Hegelianism and early activism

    Hegelianism and early activism

    Spending summer and autumn 1836 in Trier, Marx became more serious about his studies and his life.
  • Engaged

    Engaged

    He became engaged to Jenny von Westphalen, an educated baroness of the Prussian ruling class who had known Marx since childhood
  • First novel and poems

    First novel and poems

    Marx was writing both fiction and non-fiction, having completed a short novel, Scorpion and Felix, a drama and a number of love poems dedicated to his wife

  • New York Tribune and journalism

    Marx and Engels both began writing for six different newspapers around the world, in England, the United States, Prussia, Austria and South Africa.
    In London, Marx could not finance his own newspaper and could not raise the funding of others. Thus, Marx tried to communicate with the public by writing articles for the New York Tribune and other "bourgeois" newspapers.
  • Marriage

    Marriage

    Seven years after their engagement, on 19 June 1843, Marx married Jenny in a Protestant church in Kreuznach.[35]

  • Paris

    In 1844, Marx became co-editor of a new, radical leftist Parisian newspaper, the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher.
  • Her childrens

    Her childrens

    Marx and von Westphalen had seven children together, but partly owing to the poor conditions in which they lived whilst in London, only three survived to adulthood.The children were:
    Jenny Caroline (1844–1883)
    Jenny Laura (1845–1911)
    Edgar (1847–1855)
    Henry Edward Guy (1849–1850)
    Jenny Eveline Frances (1851–1852)
    Jenny Julia Eleanor (1855–1898) and one more who died before being named (July 1857)

  • Move to London and further writing

    Marx moved to London in early June 1849 and would remain based in the city for the rest of his life. He was heavily involved with the London Society of Instruction of the German Brothers.
    Marx devoted himself to two activities: the revolutionary organization and trying to understand political economy and capitalism
  • Death

    Death

    Following the death of his wife, Jenny, in December 1881