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Portrait of Friedrich Engels

Long 19th c. · 1820–1895

Who influenced Friedrich Engels?

Influences

Factory owner who co-wrote communism with Marx — history read through material conditions.

Friedrich Engels was influenced by Karl Marx. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Friedrich Engels?

Born in Barmen, Prussia, to a prosperous merchant family, Engels broke early with its Pietism and turned to the Young Hegelians and materialism. Sent to Manchester to work in a cotton mill part-owned by his family, he wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) from what he saw there.

From 1844 he worked with Karl Marx for life: together they wrote The Holy Family, The German Ideology and The Communist Manifesto (1848), and Engels fought in the revolutions of 1848. For two decades he ran the family firm in Manchester while supporting the Marx family in London. After Marx's death he completed the second and third volumes of Das Kapital, and his own Anti-Dühring and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific did much to spread Marxism.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Friedrich Engels?

1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.

The line of teachers behind Friedrich Engels

The longest documented line of influence ending at Friedrich Engels runs 25 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximenes of Miletus
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Socrates
  5. Antisthenes
  6. Diogenes of Sinope
  7. Crates of Thebes
  8. Zeno of Citium
  9. Seneca
  10. Tertullian
  11. Augustine of Hippo
  12. Anselm of Canterbury
  13. Peter Lombard
  14. Thomas Aquinas
  15. René Descartes
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. Baruch Spinoza
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Christian Wolff
  20. Immanuel Kant
  21. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  22. F. W. J. Schelling
  23. Georg W. F. Hegel
  24. Ludwig Feuerbach
  25. Karl Marx
  26. Friedrich Engels

Two steps away from Friedrich Engels

Indirect influences

Contemporaries of Friedrich Engels

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Friedrich Engels, with no direct line between them.

Friedrich Engels by the numbers

Direct influences
1
Direct followers
0
Thinkers upstream
93
Thinkers downstream
0
Wikipedia languages
133 — #7 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Legendary

Questions about Friedrich Engels

Who influenced Friedrich Engels?
Karl Marx.
Who did Friedrich Engels influence?
No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Friedrich Engels.
When did Friedrich Engels live?
1820–1895. The map files Friedrich Engels under the long 19th century.
How rare is the Friedrich Engels card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Friedrich Engels in 133 languages, which makes it a Legendary card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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