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Karl Marx

1818 - 1883

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Karl Marx (German: [ˈkaʁl ˈmaʁks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto (written with Friedrich Engels), and his three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1894), a critique of classical political economy which employs his theory of historical materialism in an analysis of capitalism, in the culmination of his life's work. Marx's ideas and their subsequent development, collectively known as Marxism, have had enormous influence. Born in Trier in the Kingdom of Prussia, Marx studied at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, and received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena in 1841. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Marx is the 2nd most popular economist, the 6th most popular biography from Germany and the most popular German Economist.

Karl Marx is most famous for being the founder of communism. He was born in 1818 and died in 1883. He was a German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary socialist.

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Among economists, Karl Marx ranks 2 out of 414. Before him are Adam Smith. After him are John Maynard Keynes, David Ricardo, Thomas Robert Malthus, John Stuart Mill, Herbert A. Simon, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Passy, Vilfredo Pareto, Milton Friedman, and François Quesnay.

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Among people born in 1818, Karl Marx ranks 1. After him are James Prescott Joule, Christian IX of Denmark, Alexander II of Russia, Ignaz Semmelweis, Emily Brontë, Ivan Turgenev, Charles Gounod, Jacob Burckhardt, Marius Petipa, Lewis H. Morgan, and Tewodros II. Among people deceased in 1883, Karl Marx ranks 1. After him are Richard Wagner, Édouard Manet, Ivan Turgenev, Gustave Doré, Emir Abdelkader, Henri, Count of Chambord, Dayananda Saraswati, Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Midhat Pasha, Charles II, Duke of Parma, and Joseph Plateau.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Marx ranks 6 out of 7,253. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven (1770), Albert Einstein (1879), Pope Benedict XVI (1927), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), and Martin Luther (1483). After him are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), Johannes Gutenberg (1394), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), and Charlemagne (748).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Karl Marx ranks 1. After him are Klaus Schwab (1938), Wassily Leontief (1906), Werner Sombart (1863), Friedrich List (1789), Albert O. Hirschman (1915), Eugen Dühring (1833), Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783), Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Alfred Weber (1868), Lorenz von Stein (1815), and Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810).

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