Friedrich Engels

The Engels family house at Barmen (now in Wuppertal), Germany

An early photograph of Engels, thought to show him aged 20–25 (c. 1840–45)

La Maison du Cygne (the Swan Tavern), Brussels, where The Communist Manifesto was written

Cover of the first edition of Engels's The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, first published in 1884

German philosopher, critic of political economy, historian, political theorist and revolutionary socialist.

- Friedrich Engels

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Das Kapital

Das Kapital, also known as Capital: A Critique of Political Economy or sometimes simply Capital (Das Kapital.

First edition title page of Volume I (1867) Volume II, and Volume III were published in 1885 and 1894, respectively

Karl Marx, Theorien über den Mehrwert, 1956

Karl Kautsky, editor of Theories of Surplus Value

While Marx did not live to publish the planned second and third parts, they were both completed from his notes and published after his death by his colleague Friedrich Engels.

Karl Marx

German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary.

Photograph of Marx taken by John Mayall in 1875

Marx's birthplace, now Brückenstraße 10, in Trier. The family occupied two rooms on the ground floor and three on the first floor. Purchased by the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928, it now houses a museum devoted to him.

Friedrich Engels, whom Marx met in 1844; the two became lifelong friends and collaborators.

The first edition of The Manifesto of the Communist Party, published in German in 1848

Marx and Engels in the printing house of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. E. Capiro, 1895.

Jenny Carolina and Jenny Laura Marx (1869): all the Marx daughters were named Jenny in honour of their mother, Jenny von Westphalen.

Tomb of Karl Marx, East Highgate Cemetery, London

A monument dedicated to Marx and Engels in Shanghai, China

Outside a factory in Oldham. Marx believed that industrial workers (the proletariat) would rise up around the world.

Karl Marx Monument in Chemnitz (known as Karl-Marx-Stadt from 1953 to 1990)

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels monument in Marx-Engels Forum, Berlin-Mitte, Germany

Map of countries that declared themselves to be socialist states under the Marxist–Leninist or Maoist definition between 1979 and 1983, which marked the greatest territorial extent of socialist states

Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the British Museum Reading Room.

Revolutionary socialism

Political philosophy, doctrine, and tradition within socialism which stresses the idea that a social revolution is necessary in order to bring about structural changes to society.

In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote:

The Condition of the Working Class in England

The Condition of the Working Class in England (Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England) is an 1845 book by the German philosopher Friedrich Engels, a study of the industrial working class in Victorian England.

Beachy Head

Chalk headland in East Sussex, England.

The ashes of German social scientist and philosopher Friedrich Engels, one of the fathers of communism, were scattered off the cliffs at Beachy Head into the Channel, as he had requested.

Wuppertal

Wuppertal ( "Wupper Dale"; named Barmen-Elberfeld from 1929 to 1930; founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities of Elberfeld, Barmen, Ronsdorf, Cronenberg and Vohwinkel) is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany.

The center of Wuppertal-Elberfeld, north of the main station in 2019

The Schwebebahn floating tram in Wuppertal-Barmen

Junior Uni Campus, designed 2013 by the Wuppertal Architects Goedeking& Niedworok

View from the university canteen in direction of the west part of Wuppertal-Elberfeld

Results of the 2020 city council election.

Sculpturepark Waldfrieden - Tony Cragg Points of View (2008)

View of Burgholz woods with typical Bergisches farmerhouse

Panoramic view of the Ölberg quarter in Wuppertal

The theatre - Das Wuppertaler Schauspielhaus

Special tours with the historical 'Kaiserwagen'

The newest generation of the Schwebebahn

The river Wupper in the woods of Wuppertal

Barmen was the birthplace of Friedrich Engels.

Humboldt University of Berlin

Public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.

Seal of the Universitas Humboldtiana Berolinensis (Latin)

Statue of Wilhelm von Humboldt in front of the main building by artist Paul Otto.

Statue of Alexander von Humboldt outside Humboldt University, from 1883 by artist Reinhold Begas.

Friedrich Wilhelm University became an emulated model of a modern university in the 19th century (photochrom from 1900).

The main building of Humboldt University, located in Berlin's "Mitte" district (Unter den Linden boulevard)

The Berlin Natural History Museum (shown here photographed in 2005) is one of the largest natural history museums in the world. Founded alongside the University of Berlin in 1810 it left the Humboldt University in 2009.

The former Royal Library, now seat of the Faculty of Law

Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist known for developing the theory of relativity and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics

Erwin Schrödinger, physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in quantum theory, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics

Max Planck, theoretical physicist and originator of quantum theory, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics

Max von Laue, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics

Paul Ehrlich, physician known for curing syphilis and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Albrecht Kossel, biochemist who pioneered in the study of genetics and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, pioneering chemist and the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Otto Hahn, chemist, pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Theodor Mommsen, classical scholar and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Alfred Wegener, polar researcher and geophysicist who originated the continental drift hypothesis

Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of Germany

Werner Heisenberg, theoretical physicist and pioneer of quantum mechanics

Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, best-known collectors of German and European folk tales

Heinrich Heine, poet best known for his early lyric poetry

Yeshayahu Leibowitz, public intellectual, scientist, and writer

Karl Marx, philosopher, political theorist, and socialist revolutionary

Friedrich Engels, philosopher and revolutionary socialist

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, idealist philosopher and one of the fundamental figures of modern Western philosophy

Walter Benjamin, philosopher, cultural critic and essayist

Max Stirner, philosopher and forerunner of nihilism and postmodernism

Felix Mendelssohn, composer during the early Romantic period

Max Weber, sociologist and influential figure in modern social theory and social research

Georg Simmel, sociologist and philosopher

W.E.B. Du Bois, civil rights activist and academic

Karl Liebknecht, socialist politician and revolutionary

Gustav Stresemann, statesman during the Weimar Republic and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

Austen Chamberlain, statesman and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

Emmanuelle Charpentier, professor and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Benedykt Dybowski, professor of Zoology, pioneer of Limnology

Past and present faculty and notable alumni include 57 Nobel Prize laureates (the most of any German university by a substantial margin), as well as eminent philosophers, sociologists, artists, lawyers, politicians, mathematicians, scientists, and heads of state; among them are Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Otto von Bismarck, W. E. B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Arthur Schopenhauer, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Walter Benjamin, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Karl Liebknecht, Ernst Cassirer, Heinrich Heine, Eduard Fraenkel, Max Planck and the Brothers Grimm.