Karl Marx

• Born in Trier, Germany in 1818

  • Son of a liberal lawyer

• Ph.D. In 1841

• Edited a newspaper in Cologne

• Fled to Paris because of political repression

  • Met Frederich Engels

• Wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848

• Fled to England where he stayed for the rest of his life

• Became a correspondent for the New York Tribune

• Studied in the British Museum library and wrote