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.

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.

Jenny Caroline Marx Longuet (1 May 1844 – 11 January 1883) was the eldest daughter of Jenny von Westphalen Marx and Karl Marx. Briefly a political journalist writing under the pen name J. Williams, Longuet taught language classes and had a family of five sons and a daughter before her death to cancer at the age of 38.

She was the wife of the political theorist and philosopher Karl Marx. She was a writer, theater critic, and activist. Jenny von Westphalen was born to an aristocratic Prussian family — her father was Ludwig von Westphalen, and her mother was Amalia Julia Carolina von Westphalen.

2016年2月14日 · 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.

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, the wife of Karl Marx, was born into the Prussian aristocracy. Her paternal grandfather was a counselor and secretary to Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick and later became his field marshal. Her grandmother belonged to the highest nobility of Scotland.

LOVE AND Capital is a fascinating historical biography of Karl and Jenny Marx, telling the story of their marriage and extended family, set in the context of the world-historic political, social, and economic turmoil through which they lived and worked.

J enny 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...

A sharply cut, witty and attractive face, a proud bearing and an extraordinarily amiable nature - that is how Jenny Marx, the companion of Karl Marx, whose grandfather, Herr von Westphalen, was the brilliant bourgeois chief of staff of Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick in the Seven Years' War and whose brother was the Prussian Minister of Reaction ...