The life of Marx

• born in Trier, German Rhineland, 1818

• son of middle-class Jewish converts to Christianity

• University of Bonn for law, then Berlin for philosophy (1841, doctorate)

• journalism, Rheinische Zeitung (1842)

• Paris, meets Engels (1843), exile

• died London 1883

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