Jenny Longuet

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Jenny Marx (1865)
Karl Marx and his daughter Jenny (1869)
Charles and Jenny Longuet
(about 1872)

Jenny Caroline Longuet , née Marx (born May 1, 1844 in Paris , † January 11, 1883 in Argenteuil ), was the eldest daughter of Jenny and Karl Marx . She was Marx's “favorite daughter”. Her siblings were Laura , Edgar , Heinrich Edward Guy (Guido; Föxchen), Jenny Eveline Francis (Franziska) and Eleanor .

Life

In 1870 she published articles on the treatment of Irish prisoners in the French newspaper La Marseillaise under the pseudonym J. Williams . In 1872 she married the socialist Charles Longuet , they both had six children, including four sons and a daughter, who survived their mother. Jenny Marx Longuet died two months before her father, likely of bladder cancer , at the age of 38.

Her sons Jean Longuet and Edgar Longuet were also involved as French socialists.

Self-description in the poetry album

Jenny kept an English-language poetry album, to which her parents Jenny and Karl answered the questionnaire in 1865 and the housekeeper Helena Demuth and Friedrich Engels in 1868 . She signed herself up in 1865 as follows:

question answer
My favorite virtue ( My favorite virtue ) Humanity ( Humanity )
... quality in man ( ... quality in man ) Moral courage ( moral courage )
... in the woman ( ... in woman ) Devotion ( devotion )
Conception of happiness ( Idea of happiness ) to love ( to love )
... misery ( ... misery ) [overwritten illegible]
Vice that I detest ( vice I detest ) Envy ( envy )
... excuse me ( ... excuse ) Credulity ( credulity )
My aversion ( My aversion ) Prejudice ( prejudice )
Historical persons I like least ( Characters in history I most dislike ) Napoleon Bonaparte and his nephew Napoleon III. ( Buonaparte and his nephew )
Favorite poet ( Favorite poet ) William Shakespeare ( Shakespeare )
... hero ( ... hero ) Gracchus ( Gracchus )
... flower ( ... flower ) Lily ( lily )
... color ( ... color ) Red ( red )
... maxim ( ... maxim ) Be true to yourself ( "To thine ownself be true" [from Hamlet ])
... motto ( ... motto ) Per aspera ad astra (German: The way to the stars is difficult.)

literature

  • Christa Krause: Birth announcement of Marx's daughter Jenny . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels Research 10, Berlin 1981, pp. 115–116.
  • Emile Bottigelli: Seven unpublished documents by Friedrich Engels . In: Friedrich Engels. 1820 - 1870. Papers, discussions, documents. Editor: Hans Pelger . Verlag für Literatur und Zeitgeschehen, Hannover 1971, pp. 319–325
  • Olga Meier (ed.): The daughters of Karl Marx. Unpublished letters . Cologne, 1981. ISBN 3-462-01432-3
  • Robert-Jean Longuet : Karl Marx - my great grandfather . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1979.
  • Olga Vorobjowa, Irma Senelnikowa: The daughters of Marx 4th erg. revised Edition Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1984.
  • Family Marx private. The photo and questionnaire albums of Marx's daughters Laura and Jenny. An annotated facsimile edition . Edited by Izumi Omura, Valerij Fomičev, Rolf Hecker and Shun-ichi Kubo. With an essay by Iring Fetscher , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-05-004118-8 .
  • Manfred Schöncke: A supposed youthful portrait of Marx's daughter Jenny or the photo of an unknown one? In: Communications sponsorship group archives and libraries on the history of the labor movement . No. 56 September 2019, Berlin 2019, pp. 26–30. ISSN  1869-3709

Web links

Commons : Jenny Longuet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelika Limmroth: Jenny Marx, p. 18.
  2. ↑ Angelika Limmroth: Jenny Marx. The biography. Berlin 2014, p. 270 f.
  3. ^ Family Marx private, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2005, Fig. 4 and pp. 240–241 ISBN 3-05-004118-8
  4. ↑ Time history. 3, 2009, Karl Marx , page 55
  5. ↑ In another questionnaire she wrote: "love" Olga Vorobjowa / Irma Sinelnikowa: Die Töchter von Marx, Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1984, p. 36
  6. ↑ In another questionnaire she wrote: "a bad conscience" Olga Vorobjowa / Irma Sinelnikowa, p. 36
  7. ↑ In another questionnaire she wrote: "Cervantes" Olga Vorobjowa / Irma Sinelnikowa, p. 36
  8. ↑ In another questionnaire she named Antigone as the heroine: "Antigona" Olga Vorobjowa / Irma Sinelnikowa, p. 36
  9. ↑ See Marx-Engels works . Volume 31, after p. 391.
personal data
SURNAME Longuet, Jenny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Longuet, Jenny Caroline; Marx, Jenny Caroline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Jenny and Karl Marx
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1883
Place of death Argenteuil