SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Jenny von Westphalen

1814 - 1881

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Johanna Bertha Julie Jenny Edle von Westphalen (German: [fɔn ˈvɛstˌfaːlən]; 12 February 1814 – 2 December 1881) was a German theatre critic and political activist. She married the philosopher and political economist Karl Marx in 1843. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jenny von Westphalen is the 82nd most popular social activist (down from 70th in 2019), the 663rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 554th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Social Activist.

Jenny von Westphalen was the wife of Karl Marx and the mother of seven of his children. She is most famous for being the mother of Karl Marx's children and for her role in the development of Marx's theories.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Jenny von Westphalen ranks 82 out of 840. Before her are Camilo Cienfuegos, Aleksandr Ulyanov, Anneliese Michel, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Martin Niemöller, and Liu Xiaobo. After her are Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Buenaventura Durruti, Dragutin Dimitrijević, Axel Munthe, Lê Đức Thọ, and Jimmy Hoffa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Jenny von Westphalen ranks 13. Before her are Adolphe Sax, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Julius von Mayer, Edwin Stanton, Hong Xiuquan, and Henri Nestlé. After her are James Joseph Sylvester, Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, August Grisebach, Eugène Charles Catalan, Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, and Heinrich Geißler. Among people deceased in 1881, Jenny von Westphalen ranks 11. Before her are James A. Garfield, Benjamin Disraeli, Lewis H. Morgan, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Louis Auguste Blanqui, and Thomas Carlyle. After her are Henri Vieuxtemps, Auguste Mariette, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Nikolai Rubinstein, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, and Empress Dowager Ci'an.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jenny von Westphalen ranks 663 out of 7,253. Before her are Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), Werner Forssmann (1904), Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811), Conrad Schumann (1942), August Horch (1868), and Rudolf Bultmann (1884). After her are Bruno Bauer (1809), Johann Franz Encke (1791), Heinrich Lübke (1894), Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine (1617), Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1861), and Karl-Otto Koch (1897).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Jenny von Westphalen ranks 9. Before her are Thomas Müntzer (1489), Sophie Scholl (1921), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), Horst Wessel (1907), Anneliese Michel (1952), and Martin Niemöller (1892). After her are Widukind (755), Hans Scholl (1918), Marianne Bachmeier (1950), Alfred Naujocks (1911), Gerda Christian (1913), and Paul Schäfer (1921).

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