Thursday, November 28, 2019

Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels was born on this day, November 28 1820  in Barmen, then in the Kingdom of Prussia, today in Wuppertal in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in the Federal Republic of Germany.

His father had large factories in Salford in England and in Barmen.

Engels died from cancer of the larynx in England in 1895.

1 comment:

Francis Hunt said...

Which means that Wuppertal is one of the few German cities - and certainly the only west German one - where one of the main streets is called "Friedrich-Engels-Allee"!

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