Louise Juta
Louise Juta , née Louise Marx (born November 14, 1821 in Trier , † July 3, 1893 in Rondebosch near Cape Town ) was the wife of Jan Carel Juta and sister of Karl Marx .
Life
Louise Marx was the sixth child of Heinrich Marx and Henriette, nee Presburg , born in Trier. Like her siblings, she was baptized on August 26, 1824 by the Protestant military pastor Mühlenhoff. Shortly after suffering from scarlet fever, she and her sister Emilie were confirmed in Trier on April 8, 1838, because their father was seriously ill. Heinrich Marx died in Trier on May 10, 1838. Like all underage siblings, she was given a guardian. Therefore, not much could be invested in their training.
She was given special attention in various wills of her mother. Presumably through her relatives in Zaltbommel ( Lion Philips ), she met her husband and married on June 5, 1853 in Trier. On June 7th, the church wedding was carried out in Traben in the presence of her uncle Lion Philips and brother-in-law of her mother Henriette Marx. On June 15, 1853, a notarial contract was concluded in Zaltbommel, which should regulate the difficult traffic conditions (the long journey to South Africa).
On the way to the Cape of Good Hope, the newly wed couple visited Karl Marx and his family in London on June 29th . Juta, his wife and children also later visited Marx and his family and Friedrich Engels in Manchester. Soon after his arrival in South Africa (1853), Juta founded JC Juta, Bookseller and Stationer, Wale Street, Cape Town , and published school books, government documents and scholarly works. In 1883 he sold part of the company to his authorized signatories Jacobus Cuypers and Thomas Mullins Duncan.
Jan Carel and Louise had seven children: Henrietta (* 1854), Jan Carel (Charles, * 1855; † 1900), Henry Hubert (* 1857; † 1930), Emilie, Wilhelma, Louise Emilie (* 1861) and Coenraad Jacobus ( * 1865) Even after 1883, Louise and her family had personal and letter contact with Marx and his daughters ( Laura Lafargue and Eleanor Marx ). Numerous photographs of the Juta family have been preserved in the estate of Laura and Jenny Marx. Jan Carel Juta died on April 8, 1886 with his family in London, Sutton Court Road, Chiswick. Eleanor Marx attended his funeral.
Louise returned to the Cape Colony and died on July 3, 1893 in Rondebosch , a southern suburb of Cape Town. She bequeathed more than £ 35,000 to her surviving children ( Sir Henry Juta , Wilhelma Juta and Louise Hosmer) including the company shares in "JC Juta & Co."
siblings
- Mauritz David Marx (1815-1819)
- Sophia Marx (1816–1866) married to Willem Robert Schmalhausen (1817–1862)
- Karl Marx
- Hermann Marx (1819–1842)
- Henriette Marx (1820–1845) married to Theodor Simons (1813–1863)
- Emilie Marx married to Johann Jacob Conradi (1821-1892)
- Caroline Marx (1824– * 1847)
- Eduard Marx (1826-1839)
Quotes
“My aunts have often told me that Mohr was a terrible tyrant as a boy; he forced them to gallop down the Marxberg in Trier at full gallop, and what was worse, he insisted that they eat the cakes which he made himself with dirty hands from even dirtier dough. But they accepted all of this without objection, because Karl told them such wonderful stories as a reward. "
“Ms. sister and Mr. My sister is very corpulent and the passage through the equator will sweat as hell. "
literature
- SA Rochlin: A link between Karl Marx and Cape Town. In: Africana Notes and News. Vol. II. Johannesburg 1944, pp. 23-24
- Juta & Company. A note on Juta's history in Cape Town . Cape Town no year
- Werner Blumenberg : An Unknown Chapter from Marx's Life. Letters to the Dutch relatives . In: International Review of Social History, 1, 1956, No. 1, pp. 54-111
- SA Rochlin: JC Juta, bookseller and publisher . In: Africana Notes and News. Johannesburg 1957, pp. 222-228
- Mohr and General . Berlin 1964, p. 272 f.
- Heinz Monz : Karl Marx and Trier. Relationships relationships influences . New publishing house, Trier 1964
- Heinz Monz: Karl Marx. Basics of life and work . NCO-Verlag, Trier 1973, pp. 235-236
- Olga Meier (ed.): The daughters of Karl Marx. Unpublished letters. Translated from the French and English by Karin Kersten and Jutta Prasse . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1981 ISBN 3-462-01432-3
- Manfred Schöncke: An unexpected inheritance . In: Yearbook of the IMSF 12th International Marx-Engels Research, Frankfurt / M. 1987, p. 181 ff.
- Juta Publishing into the Nienties. 1853-1990. 137 years of publishing . Cape Town 1990
- Manfred Schöncke: Karl and Heinrich Marx and their siblings . Cologne 1993, pp. 590-726 ISBN 3-89144-185-1
- Jan Gielkens: Karl Marx and his Dutch relatives. An annotated source edition , Trier 1999 [rather April 2000] (= writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus 50) ISBN 3-86077-845-5
- 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
Individual evidence
- ↑ see Werner Blumenberg
- ↑ Juta Publishing into the Nienties. 1853-1990. 137 years of publishing . Cape Town 1990 (with pictures by J. C. Juta and Louise Juta).
- ↑ Gielkens, p. 111
- ↑ Jan Carel Juta, Louise Juta and by the children Jan Carel (Charles), Henry Hubert, Emilie and Wilhelma. In: Family Marx private
- ^ The daughters of Karl Marx, p. 203
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Juta, Louise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marx, Louise (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sister of Karl Marx, wife of Jan Carel Juta, publisher and bookseller |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | trier |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 1893 |
| Place of death | Rondebosch near Cape Town |