He presided at the Tavern Club, which was at odds with the more aristocratic student associations, and joined a poets’ club that included some political activists. He participated in customary student activities, fought a duel, and spent a day in jail for being drunk and disorderly. The courses he attended were exclusively in the humanities, in such subjects as Greek and Roman mythology and the history of art. In October 1835 he matriculated at the University of Bonn. Marx’s writings during this period exhibited a spirit of Christian devotion and a longing for self-sacrifice on behalf of humanity. Suspected of harbouring liberal teachers and pupils, the school was under police surveillance. Marx was educated from 1830 to 1835 at the high school in Trier. Although as a youth Karl was influenced less by religion than by the critical, sometimes radical social policies of the Enlightenment, his Jewish background exposed him to prejudice and discrimination that may have led him to question the role of religion in society and contributed to his desire for social change. Karl was baptized when he was six years old. Both parents were Jewish and were descended from a long line of rabbis, but, a year or so before Karl was born, his father-probably because his professional career required it-was baptized in the Evangelical Established Church. His mother, born Henrietta Pressburg, was from Holland. His father, Heinrich, a successful lawyer, was a man of the Enlightenment, devoted to Kant and Voltaire, who took part in agitations for a constitution in Prussia. Karl Heinrich Marx was the oldest surviving boy of nine children. ( See also socialism communism.) Early years These writings and others by Marx and Engels form the basis of the body of thought and belief known as Marxism. He also was the author of the movement’s most important book, Das Kapital. He published (with Friedrich Engels) Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (1848), commonly known as The Communist Manifesto, the most celebrated pamphlet in the history of the socialist movement. Karl Marx, in full Karl Heinrich Marx, (born May 5, 1818, Trier, Rhine province, Prussia -died March 14, 1883, London, England), revolutionary, sociologist, historian, and economist. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today. Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.
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