Sam Marx Sam Marx Samuel Marx (born Simon Marx; October 23, 1859 – May 10, 1933) was the husband of Minnie Marx, and father of the Marx Brothers. According to his birth certificate, Marx was born as Simon Marx in Alsace, France. Due to his place of birth, he was known as "Frenchie". He met Minnie in New York where he was working as a dance teacher. They married in 1884 and had six sons. Their first son, Manfred, born 1885, died in infancy. The other children were Leonard (Chico), born in 1887, Adolph (Harpo) in 1888, Julius (Groucho) in 1890, Milton
Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe is presently being overseen by Gerald Hubmann. The "MEGA" of today was not the first attempt to publish a complete collection of the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their original language. Already in the 1920s and 1930s a "first MEGA" or "MEGA" was published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow under the direction of David Riazanov, a Marxist scholar and revolutionary. "MEGA" was originally intended to comprise 42 volumes, of which 12 volumes were published between 1927 and 1935. After Riazanov was removed as director of the Marx-Engels Institute in February 1931 (and killed in a perfunctory