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Jenny von Westphalen

1814 - 1881

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Johanna Bertha Julie Jenny Edle von Westphalen (12 February 1814 – 2 December 1881) was a German theatre critic and political activist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jenny von Westphalen has received more than 948,465 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Jenny von Westphalen is the 69th most popular social activist (up from 99th in 2019), the 554th most popular biography from Germany (up from 783rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Social Activist.

Jenny von Westphalen was the wife of Karl Marx and the mother of seven of his children. She is most famous for being the mother of Karl Marx's children and for her role in the development of Marx's theories.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Jenny von Westphalen ranks 69 out of 840Before her are Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, José Rizal, Witold Pilecki, Camilo Cienfuegos, Beatrice Cenci, and Bhagat Singh. After her are Buenaventura Durruti, Dominique Pire, Aleksandr Ulyanov, Horst Wessel, Sakamoto Ryōma, and Widukind.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Jenny von Westphalen ranks 12Before her are Adolphe Sax, Anders Jonas Ångström, Julius von Mayer, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Henri Nestlé, and Hong Xiuquan. After her are August Grisebach, James Joseph Sylvester, Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, Juan Prim, 1st Count of Reus, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, and Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1881, Jenny von Westphalen ranks 9Before her are Modest Mussorgsky, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Disraeli, Billy the Kid, Lewis H. Morgan, and Matthias Jakob Schleiden. After her are Louis Auguste Blanqui, Thomas Carlyle, Auguste Mariette, Henri Vieuxtemps, Nikolay Pirogov, and Henri-Frédéric Amiel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jenny von Westphalen ranks 554 out of 7,253Before her are Willi Stoph (1914), Robert Ritter von Greim (1892), Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (1687), Wolfgang Petersen (1941), Kurt Weill (1900), and Hans Jonas (1903). After her are Caroline of Baden (1776), August Schleicher (1821), Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), Walther von Reichenau (1884), Albert the Bear (1100), and Albert, King of Sweden (1340).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Jenny von Westphalen ranks 6Before her are Claus von Stauffenberg (1907), Thomas Müntzer (1489), Sophie Scholl (1921), Martin Niemöller (1892), and Carl von Ossietzky (1889). After her are Horst Wessel (1907), Widukind (755), Anneliese Michel (1952), Hans Scholl (1918), Sophia of Prussia (1870), and Alfred Naujocks (1911).