Karl Marx #3 - What Were the Early Influences?
Join Sparks oh History with
Professor Jonathan Sperber
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life (Liveright Publishing, 2013)
2014 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography
'absorbing, meticulously researched biography' – New York Times
Curator Professor Emeritus of History, University of Missouri
Member, German Studies Association
Member, American Historical Association
Selected works
• Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany
• The Kaiser's Voters: Electors and Elections in Imperial Germany
• Revolutionary Europe, 1780-1850
• The European Revolutions, 1848-1851
#3 What were the early influences that shaped Marx?
• Three early influences
• Father, who ready Voltaire to son
• Gymnasium head: Johann Wyttenbach
• Introduced Marx to Kant
• Hegel / Young Hegelians / University of Berlin
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