Louise Juta, born Louise (or Luise) Marx (14 November 1821 – 3 July 1893) was a

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and the sister of

Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...

Life

Louise Marx was the sixth child of

Heinrich Marx Heinrich Marx (born as Hirschel HaLevi; yi, הירשל הלוי; 15 April 1777 – 10 May 1838) was the father of the revolutionary leader and influential socialist thinker Karl Marx. He was a lawyer, and had eight children including Karl Marx ...

, a lawyer, and Henriette Pressburg, of

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in the

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. Growing up, her elder brother Karl was clearly the dominant child in the family. Louise's niece

Eleanor Marx Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx (16 January 1855 – 31 March 1898), sometimes called Eleanor Aveling and known to her family as Tussy, was the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. She was herself a socialist activist who sometimes worked as a ...

later recorded that Karl was “‘a unique and unrivaled storyteller. I have heard my aunts say that as a little boy he was a terrible tyrant to his sisters, whom he would ‘drive’ down the Markusberg at Trier full speed as his horses and, worse, would insist on their eating the ‘cakes’ he made with dirty dough and dirtier hands. But they stood the ‘driving’ and ate the ‘cakes’ without a murmur for the sake of the stories Karl would tell them as a reward for their virtue.” Heinrich, a

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and the son of a

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, was baptized in about 1817.David McLellan. Karl Marx: A biography, page 4.. With her siblings, Louise was baptized on 26 August 1824 by the Protestant military pastor Mühlenhoff. Shortly after a bout of scarlet fever, she was summoned with her sister Emilie on April 8, 1838 to Trier, because her father was seriously ill with

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. Heinrich Marx died on 10 May 1838 in Trier. She received, like all underage siblings, a guardian. Therefore, not much could be invested in their education. She was given special consideration in her mother's various wills. She met Jan Carel Juta in

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and they married on 5 June 1853 in a

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in Trier. On the 7 June a church wedding took place in Traben, in the presence of her mother Henriette Marx and her uncle Lion and aunt Sophie

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. On 15 June 1853, a notarised contract was concluded in Zaltbommel, in order to regulate the difficult travel conditions for the long journey to South Africa. On the way to the

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, the newly wed couple visited Karl Marx and his family in

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on 29 June. Dining with him at his Dean Street home,David McLellan. Karl Marx: A biography, page 247. Louise was demonstrably unsympathetic to Karl's views, a fellow guest noting that “she could not countenance her brother being the leader of the socialists, and insisted in my presence that they both belonged to the respected family of a lawyer, who had sympathy of everyone in Trier.” Later, Juta, his wife and children visited Marx and his family and

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, Cape Town in 1893. Louise and Jan Carel had seven children, including the future Sir

Henry Juta Sir Henry Herbert Juta (12 August 1857 – 16 May 1930) was a South African judge who served as Speaker of the Cape House of Assembly, Judge President of the Cape Provincial Division and judge of the South African Appellate Division. Early lif ...

QC, a barrister and senior Judge in the South African courts, who also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Cape Colony. Juta Publishing is still trading, and is one of South Africa's leading academic and law publishers.

Literature

*SA Rochlin: A link between Karl Marx and Cape Town. In: Africana Notes and News. Vol. II. Johannesburg 1944, pp. 23–24 *Juta & Company. A note on Juta's history in Cape Town. Cape Town o. J. *Werner Blumenberg : An Unknown Chapter from Marx's Life. Letters to the Dutch relatives. In: International Review of Social History, 1, 1956, No. 1, pp. 54–111 *SA Rochlin: JC Juta, bookseller and publisher. In: Africana Notes and News. Johannesburg 1957, pp. 222–228 *Mohr and General. Berlin 1964, p. 272 f. *Heinz Monz: Karl Marx and Trier. Relationships relationships influences. New publishing house, Trier 1964 *Heinz Monz: Karl Marx. Basics of life and work. NCO-Verlag, Trier 1973, pp. 235–236 *Olga Meier (ed.): The Daughters of Karl Marx. Unpublished letters. From French and English by Karin Kersten and Jutta Prasse. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1981 *Manfred Schoenecke: An unexpected inheritance. In: Yearbook of the IMSF 12th International Marx-Engels-Research, Frankfurt / M. 1987, p. 181 ff. *Juta Publishing into the Nineties. 1853–1990. 137 Years of publishing. Cape Town 1990 *Manfred Schoenecke: Karl and Heinrich Marx and their siblings. Cologne 1993, pp. 590–726 *Jan Gielkens: Karl Marx and his Dutch relatives. An annotated source edition, Trier 1999 ather April 2000(= writings from the Karl Marx house 50) *Family Marx private. The photo and questionnaire albums of Marx's daughters Laura and Jenny. An annotated facsimile edition. Ed. V. Izumi Omura, Valery Fomičev, Rolf Hecker and Shun-ichi Kubo. With an essay by *Iring Fetscher, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2005 *David McLellan: Karl Marx: A Biography. Macmillan, London. 1973/1995. *Francis Wheen: Karl Marx. Published by Fourth Estate, London. 1999.

References

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