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Engels, Frederick, socialist, born in Barmen on Nov. 28, , the son of a well-to-do manufacturer. Took up commerce, but already at an early age began propagating radical and socialist ideas in newspaper articles and speeches.

After working for some time as a clerk in Bremen and serving for one year as an army volunteer in Berlin in , he went for two years to Manchester, where his father was co-owner of a cotton mill.

In he worked for the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher published by Arnold Ruge and Karl Marx in Paris.

In he returned to Barmen and in addressed communist meetings organised by Moses Hess and Gustav K?ttgen in Elberfeld. Then, until , he lived alternately in Brussels and Paris; in he joined, with Marx, the secret Communist League, a predecessor of the International, and represented the Paris communities at the two League congresses in London in On the League's instructions, he wrote, jointly with Marx, the Commu