Joseph Dietzgen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJoseph Dietzgen
german philosopher
Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Stadt Blankenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Joseph Dietzgen
- Peter Josef Dietzgen (October 28, 1828 – April 15, 1888) was a German socialist philosopher, Marxist and journalist.
- Joseph was born in Blankenberg in the Rhine Province of Prussia.
- He was the first of five children of father Johann Gottfried Anno Dietzgen (1794–1887) and mother Anna Margaretha Lückerath (1808–1881).
- He was, like his father, a tanner by profession; inheriting his uncle's business in Siegburg.
- Entirely self-educated, he developed the notion of dialectical materialism independently from Marx and Engels as an independent philosopher of socialist theory.
- His publications had major influences on Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Revolution of 1917, which are rarely commented on today.
- Ludwig Feuerbach's works had a great influence on his early theories.
- He had one son, Eugene Dietzgen.
Read more at Wikipedia