Karl Marx
1818 to 1883
17 documented presences
12 places
Quo Fuit places 17 dated presences for Karl Marx across 12 places, from 1815 to 1849. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Karl Marx was documented, and when
1815 to 1819period
Porta Nigraattested
“In 1815, Heinrich Marx began working as an attorney and in 1819 moved his family to a ten-room property near the Porta Nigra.”
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5 May 1818exact date
Trierattested
“Karl Marx was born on 5 May 1818 to Heinrich Marx and Henriette Pressburg, at Brückengasse 664 in Trier, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia.”
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October 1835month
University of Bonnattested
“In October 1835 at the age of 16, Marx travelled to the University of Bonn wishing to study philosophy and literature, but his father insisted on law as a more practical field.”
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1836year
Trierattested
“Spending summer and autumn 1836 in Trier, Marx became more serious about his studies and his life.”
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October 1836month
Berlinattested
“In October 1836, Marx arrived in Berlin, matriculating in the university's faculty of law and renting a room in the Mittelstrasse.”
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1842year
Cologneattested
“Marx moved to Cologne in 1842, where he became a journalist, writing for the radical newspaper (Rhineland News), expressing his early views on socialism and his developing interest in economics.”
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October 1843month
Parisattested
“Therefore Marx and his wife moved to Paris in October 1843.”
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1844year
Parisattested
“Together with his earlier study of Hegel's dialectics, the studying that Marx did during this time in Paris meant that all major components of "Marxism" were in place by the autumn of 1844.”
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February 1845month
Brusselsattested
“Unable either to stay in France or to move to Germany, Marx decided to emigrate to Brussels in Belgium in February 1845.”
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February 1845month
Franceattested
“Unable either to stay in France or to move to Germany, Marx decided to emigrate to Brussels in Belgium in February 1845.”
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February 1845month
Germanyattested
“Unable either to stay in France or to move to Germany, Marx decided to emigrate to Brussels in Belgium in February 1845.”
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April 1845month
Barmenattested
“In April 1845, Engels moved from Barmen in Germany to Brussels to join Marx and the growing cadre of members of the League of the Just now seeking home in Brussels.”
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July 1845month
United Kingdomattested
“In mid-July 1845, Marx and Engels left Brussels for England to visit the leaders of the Chartists, a working-class movement in Britain.”
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1848year
Cologneattested
“Hoping to see the revolution spread to Germany, in 1848 Marx moved back to Cologne where he began issuing a handbill entitled the Demands of the Communist Party in Germany, in which he argued for only four of the ten points of the Commun…”
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1848year
August 1849month
August 1849month
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Places Karl Marx is documented in
Germany3 presences · 1845 to 1849Cologne2 presences · 1842 to 1848Paris2 presences · 1843 to 1844
Trier2 presences · 1818 to 1836
Berlin1 presence · 1836Brussels1 presence · 1845France1 presence · 1845London1 presence · 1849United Kingdom1 presence · 1845University of Bonn1 presence · 1835Barmen1 presence · 1845
Porta Nigra1 presence · 1815
Other places tied to Karl Marx in the record
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November 1842month
Manchestermentioned
“Engels had already spent two years living in Manchester from November 1842 to August 1844.”
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19 June 1843exact date
Bad Kreuznachmentioned
“Seven years after their engagement, on 19 June 1843, they married in a Protestant church in Kreuznach.”
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1844year
Englandmentioned
“Engels showed Marx his recently published The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, convincing Marx that the working class would be the agent and instrument of the final revolution in history.”
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28 August 1844exact date
Café de la Régencementioned
“On 28 August 1844, Marx met the German socialist Friedrich Engels at the Café de la Régence, beginning a lifelong friendship.”
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April 1845month
Parismentioned
“Accordingly, Marx recognised the need to break with Feuerbach's philosophy in favour of historical materialism, thus a year later (in April 1845) after moving from Paris to Brussels, Marx wrote his eleven "Theses on Feuerbach".”
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1846year
Brusselsmentioned
“While residing in Brussels in 1846, Marx continued his association with the secret radical organisation League of the Just.”
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1848year
Manchestermentioned
“Lochner, whom Engels described as "an old member of the Communist League"; and Carl Schorlemmer, a professor of chemistry in Manchester, a member of the Royal Society, and a communist activist involved in the 1848 Baden revolution.”
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1852year
United Statesmentioned
“The recession in the United States' economy in 1852 gave Marx and Engels grounds for optimism for revolutionary activity, yet this economy was seen as too immature for a capitalist revolution.”
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1853year
New Yorkmentioned
“Marx discussed British colonial rule in India in the New York Herald Tribune in 1853:”
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1853year
Indiamentioned
“Marx discussed British colonial rule in India in the New York Herald Tribune in 1853:”
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1857year
United Statesmentioned
“When the so-called Panic of 1857 in the United States spread globally, it broke all economic theory models, and was the first truly global economic crisis.”
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September 1861month
Londonmentioned
“After a six-month interval, Marx resumed contributions from September 1861 until March 1862, when Dana wrote to inform him that there was no longer space in the Tribune for reports from London, due to American domestic affairs.”
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1867year
Londonmentioned
“He said in a speech in London in 1867: Marx supported the cause of Irish independence.”
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1867year
Englandmentioned
“In 1867, he wrote Engels: "I used to think the separation of Ireland from England impossible.”
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1872year
1872year
14 March 1883exact date
17 March 1883exact date
Documented at the same place, the same year
Frédéric BastiatFrance · 1845Jenny von WestphalenBrussels · 1845Helmuth von Moltke the ElderGermany · 1848Friedrich EngelsGermany · 1849Nikolai GogolBerlin · 1836Rudolf von JheringBerlin · 1836Gaetano DonizettiParis · 1843Roger FentonParis · 1843Max MüllerFrance · 1845Leopold KroneckerGermany · 1845Karl Richard LepsiusGermany · 1845Augustus De MorganLondon · 1849
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