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Johanna Bertha Julie Jenny Edle von Westphalen (12 February 1814 – 2 December 1881) was a German theatre critic and political activist. She married the philosopher and political economist Karl Marx in 1843.
Marx, Jenny von Westphalen (1814–1881) Prussian of aristocratic lineage who married her childhood playmate, Karl Marx, and became his lifelong companion in the struggle for socialism . Name variations: Jenny von Westphalen.
Jenny von Westphalen um 1835. Gemälde von unbekannter Hand. Johanna Bertha Julie Jenny Marx, geborene von Westphalen (* 12. Februar 1814 in Salzwedel; † 2. Dezember 1881 in London), war eine deutsche Sozialistin und die Ehefrau von Karl Marx
Karl Marx’s Wife: Jenny von Westphalen. Johanna Bertha Julie Jenny Edle von Westphalen was born on the 12th of February, 1814, in the German town of Salzwedel. She was the wife of the political theorist and philosopher Karl Marx. She was a writer, theater critic, and activist.
Jenny von Westphalen. Born: 1814. Died: 1881 Daughter of aristocracy. Wife of Karl Marx. Mother to seven children, via her marriage to Marx: Jenny, Laura, Edgar, Heinrich, Franziska, Eleanor and one last child who died before being named. Only Jenny, Laura and Eleanor survived into their teens. Letters from Jenny Marx. Theatre Reviews by Jenny Marx
Feb 14, 2021 · Jenny Marx, the wife of Karl Marx, was first and foremost a woman with a steadfast commitment to revolutionary socialism. Not a mere cipher for her husband’s views, she genuinely believed in the struggle for working-class emancipation from capital.
He was also newly wed to the Baroness Johanna von Westphalen—or Jenny as she was less ostentatiously known. There is a puzzle here. The Westphalen family had long figured prominently in Marx’s life. Jenny’s brother, Edgar, was his best—really, his only—childhood friend.
