Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels
Photograph by William Hall, 1879
Born	(1820-11-28)28 November 1820 Barmen, Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Kingdom of Prussia (now Wuppertal, Germany)
Died	5 August 1895(1895-08-05) (aged 74) London, England
Political party	Communist Correspondence Committee (until 1847) Communist League (1847–1852) International Workingmen's Association (1864–1872)
Philosophy career
Education	Gymnasium zu Elberfeld (withdrew)[1] University of Berlin (no degree)[1]
Notable work	The Condition of the Working Class in England, Anti-Dühring, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, The German Ideology, The Communist Manifesto
Partner(s)	Mary Burns (died 1863) Lizzie Burns ​ ​ (m. 1878; died 1878)​
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Marxism
Main interests	Political philosophy, political economy, class struggle, criticism of capitalism
Notable ideas	Alienation and exploitation of the worker, dialectical materialism, historical materialism, false consciousness
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Friedrich Engels II (28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German political thinker and writer. He wrote about Communism with philosopher Karl Marx. They wrote the book The Communist Manifesto together.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Norman Levine, Divergent Paths: The Hegelian Foundations of Marx's Method, Lexington Books, 2006, p. 92: "the Young never graduated from the gymnasium, never went to university..."