(1818-1883)
German social philosopher, founder of modern communism. He was born in Trier, and converted to Protestantism at the age of six. He was the editor of the Cologne daily, Rheinische Zeitung. He moved to Paris in 1843, and then went to Brussels. In 1848 he and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto. In 1849 he settled in London, where he wrote Das Kapital. In his writings he expressed hostility towards Jews and Judaism.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.