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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 February 2025. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. German philosopher (1820–1895) "Engels" redirects here. For other uses, see Engels (disambiguation). Friedrich Engels Engels in 1879 Born (1820-11-28) 28 November 1820 Barmen, Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Kingdom of Prussia (now Wuppertal, Germany ...
Friedrich Engels was born in 1820 as the son of a successful German industrialist. As a young man his father sent him to England to help manage his cotton factory in Salford. Engels was shocked by the poverty in the city and began writing an account that was published as the Condition of the Working Classes in England (1844).
Engels himself was born in a different house owned by the family approximately 100 m (330 ft) to the east that has since been destroyed, but spent his youth growing up at Engels-Haus. The museum was opened in 1970 on the 150th anniversary of Engels' birth, and became a popular tourist destination for citizens of communist and socialist ...
Lydia "Lizzie" Burns (6 August 1827 [2] – 12 September 1878) was a working-class Irish woman, the wife of German philosopher Friedrich Engels. [3] [4]Lizzie Burns was a daughter of Michael Burns or Byrne, a dyer in a cotton mill, and of Mary Conroy.
Eleanor Marx (middle) with her two sisters - Jenny Longuet, Laura Marx, father Karl Marx (right) and Friedrich Engels. Eleanor Marx was born in London on 16 January 1855, the sixth child and fourth daughter [1] of Karl Marx and his wife Jenny von Westphalen. She was called "Tussy" by her family from a young age.
The Condition of the Working Class in England (German: 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. Engels' first book, it was originally written in German; an English translation was published in 1887.
Mary Burns (29 September 1821 [1] – 7 January 1863) [2] [3] [4] was a working-class Irish woman, best known as the lifelong partner of Friedrich Engels. [5] [6] Burns was born and lived most of her life in Manchester, England.
The statue of Friedrich Engels is a 12 ft (3.7 m) concrete statue of German philosopher Friedrich Engels currently located at Tony Wilson Place in Manchester, England. The Soviet-era statue depicts Engels in a standing pose with his arms crossed, and stands on a pedestal bearing the Cyrillic inscription "ะค.