10 Facts About Heinrich Marx

Heinrich Marx was a lawyer, and had eight children including Karl Marx and Louise Juta.

Heinrich Marx was born in Saarlouis, with the name Herschel Levi, the son of Rabbi Marx Levi Mordechai ben Samuel Halevi and Eva Lwow.

Heinrich Marx's father was the rabbi of Trier, a role which his older brother, the Rabbi Samuel Marx von Trier would later assume.

In 1817 or 1818, he changed his name to Heinrich Marx and converted to Lutheran Christianity in the state Evangelical Church of Prussia to be allowed to practice law in Prussia.

Largely non-religious Christian, Heinrich Marx was a man of the Enlightenment, interested in the ideas of the philosophers Immanuel Kant and Voltaire.

In 1815 Heinrich Marx began work as an attorney, in 1819 moving his family to a ten-room property near the Roman Porta Nigra archway.

Henriette's sister Sophie Pressburg, Karl Heinrich Marx's aunt, married Lion Philips, a wealthy Dutch tobacco manufacturer and industrialist, upon whom Karl and Jenny Heinrich Marx would later often come to rely for loans while they were exiled in London.

Heinrich Marx became a passionate Prussian patriot and monarchist who educated his family as liberal Lutheran Christians.

Heinrich Marx died of tuberculosis at age 61 and was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Trier.

Heinrich Marx had his son educated at home until the age of twelve.