Talk:Heinrich Marx

Heschel, not Herschel
In all documents of Heinrich Marx in Trier (e.g.census of population) Heschel Levi (Heinz Monz. Karl Marx. Trier 1973, S. 217). --WhoisWhoME (talk) 03:56, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Yiddish form of the name Herschel
in Yiddish there is no fixed orthography to my knowledge, yet there is a tendency to use the letter ayin (ע) to transcribe /e/, thus it would be more logical if the name were spelled הערשל (Wiktionary has this spelling) or even הערשעל instead of הירשל which would suggest an /i/ sound leading to the word being read as if it were spelled Hirschel in German 85.237.234.108 (talk) 09:13, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Birth name issue
The lead says that Marx's birth name is Herschel HaLevi; the "Life" section, Herschel Levi; and the infobox, Herschel Chaim ben Marx HaLevi. Can someone on the topic please clarify this issue? What's Marx's actual birth name? 2800:2222:0:C53:D93A:C4C3:55B:31B (talk) 01:07, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Daguerreotype
The section about the relationship with Karl says "his daughter Eleanor writing 'he never tired of talking about him, and always carried an old daguerreotype photograph of him'. On Karl's death, Engels laid the photograph in his coffin."

However, the timeline doesn't add up: Heinrich died in May 1838, but the daguerreotype was publicly announced only in August 1839. Are we to believe that during the last three years of his life, Heinrich Marx traveled to Paris, met Daguerre, and convinced him to take a very early daguerreotype of him, which at the point was still an experimental technique and very much a secret? This seems very implausible. --2A02:8109:AB8F:7600:5804:E4BA:8B12:2414 (talk) 00:12, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


 * The daguerreotype claim is cited to McLellan's biography on Karl Marx (McLellan, David (2006), Karl Marx: A Biography (4th ed.) (Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan), pp. 26-27). Perhaps if someone has access to this work they can check to see if there is any further information on how Heinrich Marx was able to obtain a dageurreotype at such an early time? Wcp07 (talk) 07:50, 2 March 2024 (UTC)