Biography of Karl Marx

Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 to Heinrich and Henrietta Marx in the city of Trier. Karl was one of seven children raised in a comfortable middle class home provided by his father. Marx's father worked as a counselor-at-law at the High-Court of Appeal in Trier. David McClellan believes that, "Trier first imbued Marx with his abiding passion for history."1 Although the Marx family was linked to a long lineage of Jewish ancestry, Heinrich converted …

…of value in his last few years of life. Karl Marx died on March 14, 1883 . His friend and colleague, Friedrich Engels, read the eulogy at his funeral. During his life, Marx lived in the same manner as many philosophers of his time. Marx did not start any world shattering revolution; he simply published articles and philosophical papers. It was, however, the revolutionary ideas found in those papers that would live beyond him to change the world.