📍Karl-Marx-Haus, Brückenstraße 10, 54290 Trier, Germany
1818 – 1819“I was born at two in the morning on 5 May 1818, in an alcove of a rented apartment of six rooms in this baroque house on Brückenstraße in Trier, a small, ancient city on the Moselle full of Roman ruins and vineyards — the Porta Nigra, the great basilica, the old bridge just down the street. I was the only one of my parents' children to be born here, because by the autumn of 1819 we had moved to a house of our own on Simeonstraße, near the Porta Nigra. My father, Heinrich, was a lawyer from a long line of rabbis; to keep practising law under Prussian rule he became a Protestant, and the rest of us followed. My mother, Henriette, was Dutch. I went to Trier's grammar school, and a friend of my father's, Baron von Westphalen, walked with me and talked of Shakespeare and new ideas; I fell in love with his daughter Jenny and married her. I studied in Bonn and Berlin and lived in exile in Paris, Brussels and London, where I wrote Das Kapital. The house is now the Karl Marx House museum.”
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