
He studied jurisprudence at Bonn and later in Berlin, where, however, his preoccupation with philosophy soon turned him away from law. Karl Marx was born on in Trier, where he received a classical education. The article below is a slightly edited version of the text. 2 The paper never published it, and Engels rewrote it over the next year for publication in Die Zukunft (“TheFuture”), a paper to which both Marx and Engels had previously contributed. 1 In 1868, Engels submitted an earlier version to Die Gartenlaube, a magazine focusing on teaching history in accessible ways, from traditional texts and narratives to fiction and images.

Friedrich Engels published this biography of Marx in 1869, while Marx was still alive. Karl Marx was born 205 years ago today, on May 05, 1818.
