Marx was born in the city of Trier Prussia, now, Germany on May 5, 1818. He was only one of seven children of Jewish parents. His mother, a Dutch Jewess, named Henrietta Pressburg was from Holland and never became a German at heart, not even speaking the language properly. She seemed to have no interest in Marx’s intellectual side during his life. His father was fairly liberal, taking part in some demonstrating fo

r a constitution for Prussia. He was a Jewish layer, and before he died in 1838, he converted the family to Christianity, where Marx would be baptized at the age of six.

Marx childhood seemed to be a happy and carefree one. The relationship between Marx’s parents helped to set him in the right direction. His ‘splendid natural gifts’ awakened in his father the hope that they would one day be used in the service of humanity, whilst his mother declared him to be a child of fortune in whose hands everything would go well. (The Story of His Life, Mehring, page 2)

While at Berlin, Marx’s experience was crucial to his introduction to Hegel’s Philosophy and to the group known as the Young Hegelians. The group organized due to the philosophy Hegel, the teacher that taught from 1818 to his death. The teachings of Hegel shaped the way the school thought towards things. Those students that did study Hegel and his work became known as the Young Hegelians. Upon Marx’s first introducti

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