PHILOSOPHER

Friedrich Engels

1820 - 1895

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Friedrich Engels ( ENG-gəlz; German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈɛŋl̩s]; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, political theorist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He was also a businessman and Karl Marx's lifelong friend and closest collaborator, serving as the co-founder of Marxism. Born in Barmen in the Kingdom of Prussia, Engels was the son of a wealthy textile manufacturer. Despite his bourgeois background, he became a staunch critic of capitalism, influenced by his observations of industrial working conditions in Manchester, England, as published in his early work The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Engels is the 32nd most popular philosopher (down from 25th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Germany (down from 25th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Philosopher.

Friedrich Engels is most famous for co-writing the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Friedrich Engels ranks 32 out of 1,267. Before him are Democritus, Seneca the Younger, Epicurus, Averroes, Al-Ghazali, and Thomas Hobbes. After him are Auguste Comte, Martin Heidegger, Maria Montessori, Parmenides, Søren Kierkegaard, and Origen.

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Among people born in 1820, Friedrich Engels ranks 1. After him are Florence Nightingale, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, Herbert Spencer, Nadar, William John Macquorn Rankine, Anne Brontë, Harriet Tubman, Henri, Count of Chambord, Edmond Becquerel, Henri Vieuxtemps, and Multatuli. Among people deceased in 1895, Friedrich Engels ranks 2. Before him is Louis Pasteur. After him are Alexandre Dumas fils, Berthe Morisot, Thomas Henry Huxley, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, José Martí, Franz von Suppé, Empress Myeongseong, Isma'il Pasha, Julius Lothar Meyer, and Adam Opel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Engels ranks 29 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Benz (1844), Henry Kissinger (1923), Max Weber (1864), Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), Frederick the Great (1712), and Johannes Brahms (1833). After him are Angela Merkel (1954), Max Planck (1858), Bernhard Riemann (1826), Anne Frank (1929), Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368), and Hermann Hesse (1877).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Friedrich Engels ranks 3. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770). After him are Martin Heidegger (1889), Hannah Arendt (1906), Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Nicholas of Cusa (1401), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Karl Jaspers (1883), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846), and Jürgen Habermas (1929).

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