Karl Heinrich Marx, author of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ and ‘Capital’, died in London on 14 March 1883.
To mark the day, we’re sharing a newspaper report of his death and a report on his funeral and burial at Highgate Cemetery.
We do wonder about the story regarding Marx and Engels almost dying in the Tay Bridge Disaster in 1879. The story goes that they had planned to travel on the ill-fated train while on a lecture tour in Scotland, but one (or both) of them caught a cold, so they changed their travel plans.
It might just be an urban myth, this story. But if anybody has any definite information about this story, please leave a comment on the blog!
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prof premraj pushpakaran writes — 2018 marks the 200th birth year of Karl Heinrich Marx!!!
Karl Heinrich Marx was naturally introduced to an agreeable working-class home in Trier on the waterway Moselle in Germany on May 5, 1818. He originated from a long queue of rabbis on the two sides of his family and his dad, a man who knew Voltaire and Lessing by heart, had consented to submersion as a Protestant with the goal that he would not lose his activity as a standout amongst the most regarded attorneys in Trier. At seventeen years old, Marx selected in the Faculty of Law at the University of Bonn.