Korsch’s Early Years

Patrick Goode

Chapter 1 in Karl Korsch, 1979, pp 5-16 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Karl Korsch was born on 15 August 1886 in Tostedt on the Lüneberg Heath.1 Like many other Marxist intellectuals, he came from a family upwardly mobile from the lower middle class. Originally his father was from a farming background, but by hard work he rose to be the vice-president of a bank in Meiningen, where Korsch went to grammar school (Gymnasium).2 After taking his Abitur, he began to make the rounds of the universities in the normal fashion of German students of that period. He spent most of his time at Jena, but visited Geneva and Berlin, and also had one term in Munich.3

Keywords: Grammar School; Lower Middle Class; German Student; Socialist Movement; Philosophical Aspect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03656-1_2

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