Sunday, January 24, 2016

Jenny von Westphalen (1814 - 1881) and her childrens

 Jenny von Westphalen (February 12, 1814 – December 2, 1881) was the wife of the philosopher Karl Marx. They became engaged in 1836 and married in 1843. They had seven children.
Jenny von Westphalen (12 February 1814, Salzwedel - 2. December 1881, London), and later Jenny Marx, known as the Germanphilosopher and social scientist, Karl Marx's wife. He was born to an aristocratic family, but married Marx, who was accordingly lowerthe bourgeoisie. This marriage had seven children: Jenny, Laura, Edgar Heinrich, Franziska, Eleanor, and one who died before the adoption of the name. Only Jenny, Laura and Eleanor survived until the teen-lived. Jenny died of cancer just before her father. Eleanor Marx committed suicide in 1898 - originally designed to do double suicide "groom" with Edward Awelingin, but he left his own poison to drink. Laura and her husband, Paul Lafargue committed suicide a couple of years before the Russian Revolution.
Karl and Jenny Marx had the following seven children, in chronological order:

  1. Jenny Caroline (1 May 1844 – 11 January 1883). Married Charles Longuet in 1872. She was a socialist activist. She wrote for the socialist press in France in the 1860s, most importantly in exposing British treatment of Fenian revolutionaries in Ireland. She died of bladder cancer, aged 38.
  2. Jenny Laura (26 September 1845 – 26 November 1911), born in Brussels, Belgium. Married Paul Lafargue in 1868. She was a socialist activist. Laura and her husband did decades of political work together, translating Marx's work into French, and spreading Marxism in France and Spain. She died in a suicide pact with her husband. She was 66.
  3. Charles Louis Henri Edgar (3 February 1847 in Brussels – 6. May 1855), "Mush" to family and friends, named for his uncle Edgar, the brother of Jenny von Westphalen. He died, aged 8.
  4. Henry Edward Guy ("Guido"; Henry Edward Guy 5 September 1849, born at London; died 19 November 1850, London, England).
  5. Jenny Eveline Frances ("Franziska"; 28 March 1851 – 14 April 1852)
  6. Jenny Julia Eleanor (16 January 1855 – 31 March 1898), born in London. She was a socialist activist. She committed suicide at the age of 43 by poisoning herself with prussic acid, after discovering that her long term partner, Edward Aveling, had secretly married a young actress named Eva Frye in June 1897.
  7. An unnamed child, born and died 6 July 1857 in London                                                               Karl Marx (1818–1883),Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), and Marx's daughters:Jenny Caroline (1844–1883),Jenny Julia Eleanor (1855–1898), )and Jenny Laura(1845–1911)

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