Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) was born in Barmen, in the Prussian Rhineland, the son of a textile manufacturer, and sent to work in the family's Manchester cotton-milling business, where what he saw of industrial poverty shaped The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845). He met Karl Marx in 1844 and became his lifelong collaborator and, after 1850, his financial support, co-writing The Communist Manifesto (1848) with him and afterward editing the second and third volumes of Capital from Marx's manuscripts after Marx's death. He also wrote Anti-Dühring (1878) and The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884). He died in London.