Albert Komp (born Johann Paul Albert Komp; 27 January 1845''Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558–1898'' – 4 April 1910) was a German-American painter who was active in New York City communist circles in the mid-nineteenth century. Komp was born in 1845 in

Prüm Prüm () is a town in the Westeifel (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany. Formerly a district capital, today it is the administrative seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Prüm. Geography Prüm lies on the river Prüm (a tri ...

, Prussia, to Paul Komp and Anna Catharina Wilhelmine Hirfeld. He emigrated in 1864. He became a U.S. citizen in 1874 in Philadelphia, where he died in 1910. In 1857, Komp joined

Friedrich Sorge Friedrich Adolph Sorge (9 November 1828 – 26 October 1906) was a German communist political leader who emigrated to the United States, where he played an important role in the labor movement, including the foundation of the Socialist Labor Par ...

, Fritz Jacobi and Fr Kamm in setting up the

New York Communist Club The New York Communist Club was a communist organisation set up in New York City in 1857. It was particularly active in the abolitionist struggle, leading it to become inactive during the American Civil War, as so many of its members were in the Uni ...

. He was a

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. He was also active in the American Workers League, alongside James McGuire and Ida B. Davis. Komp was in correspondence with Karl Marx for a number of years, requesting literature such as ''

The Poverty of Philosophy ''The Poverty of Philosophy'' (French: ''Misère de la philosophie'') is a book by Karl Marx published in Paris and Brussels in 1847, where he lived in exile from 1843 until 1849. It was originally written in French language, French as a critique ...

'' and the '' Neue Rheinische Zeitung ''be sent to him in New York. Komp was a childhood friend of Joseph Dietzgen, and in 1861 Ditzgen left the manuscript of his article ''Schwarz oder Weiss'' with him when he left for Germany.

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