KARL HEINRICH MARX
1818 - 1883

Together with his buddy Friedrich Engels, Karl published The Communist Manifesto. That was in 1848. And in German. Hence it was titled Das Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei. Here you can read The Communist Manifest online and for free.

Karl was a sociologist. His parents were Jewish. His father German, his mother Dutch.

In 1867, Das Kapital was ready to be read by the world.

Here is a Karl Marx timeline.