Friedrich Engels

Tags: Philosopher.

Friedrich Engels (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈɛŋəls]; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German social scientist author political theorist philosopher and father of Marxist theory alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England based on personal observations and research. In 1848 he co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx and later he supported Marx financially to do research and write Das Kapital.

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birth date

1820-11-28

birth place

Wuppertal, Kingdom of Prussia

death date

1895-08-05

death place

England, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

era

19th-century philosophy

influenced

Marxists, Jean-Paul Sartre, Leon Trotsky, Mao Zedong, Guy Debord, Rosa Luxemburg, V. Gordon Childe, Antonio Negri, Frankfurt School, Che Guevara, Vladimir Lenin

influenced by

Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Heraclitus, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Moses Hess, Lewis H. Morgan, Charles Fourier, Ludwig Feuerbach, Max Stirner, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

main interest

Political philosophy, Class conflict

notableIdea

Marx's theory of alienation, Historical materialism, Marxism

philosophicalSchool

Materialism, Marxism