KARL MARX, perhaps the most celebrated of the German socialistic economists, whose writings so powerfully exaggerated the tendencies of the last quarter of the nineteenth century towards centralization, was born at Treves, in Prussia, May 5th, 1818. At the universities of Bonn and Berlin he studied history, jurisprudence, and philosophy; and it was not until 1843, after he had been expelled from Germany for his revolutionary tendencies, that he began his systematic study of sociology and political economy. After his exile from Germany in 1843, he took up his residence in Paris; but the German government had sufficient influence to secure his expulsion from France, and he lived in Brussels until 1848. In that year he returned to Germany to take part in the revolutionary movement of “Young Germany,” on the failure of which he went again into exile, settling finally in London, where he died March 14th, 1883. His chief work is “Capital” (“Das Kapital”), 1867.