Karl Marx

Karl Marx (1818-1883) was born in Trier, Prussia, to a middle-class family of Jewish descent that had converted to Protestantism. He studied law and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, where he encountered Hegelian philosophy, and earned his doctorate with a dissertation on ancient Greek atomism. His radical journalism led to exile from Germany, and he lived successively in Paris, Brussels, and finally London, where he spent the last three decades of his life in often desperate poverty, supported financially by his collaborator Friedrich Engels. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Das Kapital.