Author: Gross, Gustav [1856- 1935]
Title: Karl Marx : Eine Studie
Description: Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1885. boards. 21x14cm, vi,82 pages. Contemporary binder's blind boards. The first biographical study of Marx, by a national liberal German Bohemian politician.. Spine labels. Rubberstamps to flyleaf, half-title & title. Good. ¶ ["In 1885 Duncker and Humblot in Leipzig published an early Marx biography of the private lecturer in political economy at the University of Vienna Gustav Gross ...later known as the 'Crown Jurist of the Germans' in Bohemia. Friedrich Engels had helped Gustav Gross with some biographical information, as he wrote in a letter to the Russian exile socialist and former Paris Communard Pyotr L. Lavrov on February 12, 1885: 'The other facts given by Gross are also correct, as far as I remember (Tussy has my copy, I can't compare it). Of course, I have nothing in common with his stupid criticism of Marx's theories. He had been recommended to me by Viennese socialists, asked me a few biographical questions, and I told him the facts'. As early as January 13, 1885, Engels had sent Karl Kautsky, who then wrote a review of Gross's Marx biography in the 'Neue Zeit' published, wrote: 'The big one seems like a cattle, but a decent one. I can't say anything against the biography, if you want to beat up his theory confusion, then I don't envy you the work.." -Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft website,4/ 2004]. ["The first biography of Marx appeared two years after his death, written by Gustav Gross in 1885. It was a rather short work, but already biased: it concentrated on Marx’s late economic writings which were first gaining a degree of attention at the time..." - Diana Siclovan in "Reviews in History", August 2013].

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