Edgar Longuet

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Edgar Marcel Longuet (born August 18, 1879 in Ramsgate , England , † December 12, 1950 in Alfortville , France ) was a French doctor and socialist.

Life

Longuet was a son of Charles Longuet and Jenny Caroline Marx , the daughter of Karl Marx . His nickname was due to "his greed" Wolf .

He was active in the French labor movement and joined the Socialist Party in 1905. He left in 1937 and became a member of the PCF the following year . Politically, he was a staunch Stalinist and admired the Soviet Union . In 1948 Longuet gave the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow a daguerreotype on which his grandfather Karl Marx, his daughters Jenny (Longuet's mother), Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx , Jenny Laura Marx and his friend Friedrich Engels can be seen are. In the same year he took part in the Soviet Union and in the People's Republic of Polandparticipated in the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto , which was written by his grandfather Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Longuet worked as a doctor.

Edgar Longuet was the father of the painter Frédéric Longuet and the politician Paul Longuet .

Works

  • Some pages of Karl Marx's family life . In: Mohr and General. Memories of Marx and Engels . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1964, pp. 359-374

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelika Limmroth: Jenny Marx. Die Biographie, Berlin 2014, p. 246, footnote 778.
  2. ↑ Angelika Limmroth: Jenny Marx. Die Biographie, Berlin 2014, p. 246.
  3. ↑ Angelika Limmroth: Jenny Marx. The biography, Berlin 2014, p. 265.
personal data
SURNAME Longuet, Edgar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Longuet, Edgar Marcel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor and socialist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Ramsgate , England
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1950
Place of death Alfortville , France