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Victor Gustav Bloede was born March 14, 1949 in Dresden, Germany. His parents were Gustav Bloed and Maria Jungnitz. The family immigrated to the United States in August, 1850 and settled in Bordentown, New Jersey. Victor married Elise Schon June 5, 1883 in Toledo, Ohio. They settled in Parkersburg, West Virginia and later in Catonsville, Maryland. They had five children. Victor died in 1937 in Catonsville. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived in Germany, New York, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland and elsewhere.
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A new, comprehensive biography of the life and work of Karl Marx For over a century, Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism has been a crucial resource for social movements. Now, recent economic crises have made it imperative for us to comprehend and actualize Marx’s ideas. But without a knowledge of Karl Marx’s life as he lived it, neither Marx nor his works can be fully understood. There are more than twenty-five comprehensive biographies of Marx, but none of them consider his life and work in equal, corresponding measure. This biography, planned for three volumes, aims to include what most biographies have reduced to mere background: the contemporary conflicts, struggles, and disputes t...
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One century after Gustav Landauer’s death, in a time marked by a deep doubt concerning modern politics, the volume proposes a fascinating overview of the articulation between skepsis and antipolitics in his multifaceted unconventional anarchism.
“Very few men,” said Bakunin, “have read as much, and, it may be added, have read as intelligently, as M. Marx.” S. S. Prawer’s highly influential work explores how the world of imaginative literature—poems, novels, plays—infused and shaped Marx’s writings, from his unpublished correspondence, to his pamphlets and major works. In exploring Marx’s use of literary texts, from Aeschylus to Balzac, and the central role of art and literature in the development of his critical vision, Karl Marx and World Literature is a forensic masterpiece of critical analysis.
Mit dem Registerband wird die zweite, aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage des Killy Literaturlexikons abgeschlossen. Er bietet ein breites, dennoch übersichtliches Personenregister unter Angabe der Lebensdaten und alles Fundstellen im Lexikon und hilft so, lebensgeschichtliche wie literarische Verbindungen aufzudecken. Der Band enthält darüber hinaus eine Liste der Corrigenda.