Engels, Friedrich

Engels, Friedrich, socialist, was born 28th November 1820, the son of a Barmen manufacturer, and while conducting a branch of his father's business at Manchester wrote his work on the condition of The Working Classes in England (1844; new ed. 1892; trans. N.Y. 1887). He is best known as the friend, colleague, and continuator of Marx (q.v.; and see INTERNATIONAL), and author of works on the family (1884); Feuerbach's philosophy (1888); and on the development of Socialism (4th ed. 1891). In 1850-69 again at Manchester, he subsequently lived mainly at London, and died 5th August 1895. See Life by Bernstein (1896).