Selected Biographies Of Karl Marx

Selected Biographies

Author	Year	Title
Gustav Gross	1885	Karl Marx: Eine Studie
William Liebknecht	1896	Karl Marx, Biographical Memoirs
Paul Lafargue	1905	My Recollections of Karl Marx
Various	1908	Karl Marx: In memoriam
Jonathan Spargo	1910	Karl Marx: his life and work
Clara Zetkin	1913	Karl Marx und Sein Lebenswerk
Franz Mehring	1918	Karl Marx: The story of his life
Otto Ruhle	1926	Karl Marx: Leben und Werk
David Riazanov	1927	Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: an introduction to their lives and works
Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central Committee of the CPSU		Karl Marx: a biography
E. H. Carr	1934	Karl Marx: A study in fanaticism
Boris Nicolaevsky	1936	Karl Marx: Man and Fighter
Karl Korsch	1938	Karl Marx
Isaiah Berlin	1939	Karl Marx: His Life and Environment
Leopold Schwarzschild	1947	The Red Prussian: the life and legend of Karl Marx
David McLellan	1973	Karl Marx: a biography
Fritz J. Raddatz	1975	Karl Marx: Eine politische biographie
Francis Wheen	1999	Karl Marx: A life
Jonathan Sperber	2013	Karl Marx: A nineteenth century life
Gareth Stedman Jones	2016	Karl Marx: greatness and illusion
Michael Heinrich	2018	Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society (1st of 3 volumes.)

Karl Marx was a great man. In other words, he had a huge impact on the world. Many, as seen above, have written biographies. I try to give the original year of publication. I am inconsistent about whether or not I translate the title.

Early biographies tend to be memoirs, based on recollections and oral stories, with little documentation. Later, biographies tend to be more intellectual histories. I have read the Mehring biography and the Lafarge memoir. Most of what I have read about his life were in studies of his thought, that are not included above. Examples include Shlomo Avineri, Ernest Mandel, and Takahisi Oishi. Some around the mid twentieth century focus on being pro or against the Soviet Union. The last couple of decades have seen academic works with lots of documentation.

References

• Lenin. 1915. Karl Marx. Collected Works, V. 21
• Segrillo, Angelo. 2019. Two centuries of Karl Marx biographies. LEA Working Paper, No. 4.