For instance there is a documented example of serious flooding in the Malaga area on the 1st October 1907 which killed over 100 people and left approximately 12,000 people homeless.
In addition, the fact that Marx delayed publication of many of his writings meant that is been only recently that scholars had the opportunity to appreciate Marx's intellectual stature. Karl Heinrich Marx was born into a comfortable middle-class home in Trier on the river Moselle in Germany on May 5, 1818.
Karl Marx. Karl Marx, 1818â83, German social philosopher, the chief theorist of modern socialism and communism. Early Life. Marx's father, a lawyer, converted from Judaism to Lutheranism in 1824. Marx studied law at Bonn and Berlin, but became interested in philosophy and took a Ph.D. degree at Jena (1841).