ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Political theorist Karl Marx (1818–1883) was born in Trier, Germany. Although both his grandfathers were rabbis, Marx’s father converted his eight children to Protestantism in 1824.

Detailed explanation-2: -Karl Marx, in full Karl Heinrich Marx, (born May 5, 1818, Trier, Rhine province, Prussia [Germany]-died March 14, 1883, London, England), revolutionary, sociologist, historian, and economist.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1845 he was exiled and moved to London together with his wife and children where he continued writing and formulating his theories about social and economic activity. He also campaigned for socialism and became a significant figure in the International Workingmen’s Association.

Detailed explanation-4: -In Cologne he established and edited a communist periodical, the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, and engaged in organizing activities. In 1849 Marx was arrested and tried in Cologne on a charge of incitement to armed insurrection; he was acquitted but was expelled from Germany, and the Neue Rheinische Zeitung was suppressed.