Join Sparks oh History with
Professor Jonathan Sperber
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life (Liveright Publishing, 2013)
2014 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography
'absorbing, meticulously researched biography' – New York Times
Curator Professor Emeritus of History, University of Missouri
Member, German Studies Association
Member, American Historical Association
Selected works
• Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany
• The Kaiser's Voters: Electors and Elections in Imperial Germany
• Revolutionary Europe, 1780-1850
• The European Revolutions, 1848-1851
#4 Did Marx receive any Jewish Education?
• Marx was baptized at age 5
• First Religious writing was on Gospel of John
• Marx Family, many converted
• Some Trier relatives remained Jewish
