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Franz Mehring

Franz Mehring
Franz Mehring c. 1900
Born(1846-02-27)27 February 1846
Schlawe, Pomerania, Prussia (today Sławno, Poland)
Died28 January 1919(1919-01-28) (aged 72)
Alma materLeipzig University
Occupation(s)Journalist, historian, philosopher, literary critic

Franz Erdmann Mehring (27 February 1846 – 28 January 1919) was a German communist historian, literary and art critic, philosopher, and revolutionary socialist politician who was a senior member of the Spartacus League during the German Revolution of 1918–1919. He authored Karl Marx: The Story of His Life (1918), which was long considered the classical biography of Marx.


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