What Does Karl Mean?

Karl is a well known male name. Karl Heinrich Marx born on May 5, 1818 was a well known German Philosopher, political economist as well a revolutionary.

Marx tackled a number of issues; he is popular for his study on history. Marx though that the break down of capitalism was predictable, and that it would soon be substituted by communism, he was against communalism as a future state of the society. Marx was some what an obscure figure in his own lifetime, his thought started to exert immense influence on the worker's society soon after his death.

Karl Marx took birth in a Jewish family which was based in Trier, in the Rhineland district of Germany. Till the age of thirteen Marx was home schooled later on he graduated from the Trier Gymnasium, Marx later joined the University of Bonn in the year 1835.