Karl Heinrich Marx was born in Trier near the Moselle River in Germany on May 5, 1818. Karl was born to Hirschel and Henrietta Marx. Although Marx's family had been Jewish for many generations and there were man many Rabbis in his family tree, Marx's father has him baptized as a Protestant Christian so that he could continue to practice as a lawyer in Trier, where he was one of the most well known and successful lawyers in the town. In 1835, at the age of 17, Marx went to Bonn and enrolled at the University of Bonn law in the Faculty of Law. …
