201 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 28th of November 1820Philosopher Friedrich Engels is born in Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He studied in Dresden and graduated German Literature with a diploma in 1935. He also received honorary doctorate degrees from Germany's highest public secondary school (Hülschwärtzbuch), a Künrich-University of Technology (Hildegardt) and Darmstadt-Universität Berlin (Geltälcken). He studied political economy at the Universität Stalerische Freie Universität in Tübingen and later held the position of honorary director of the Berlin Museum of History with the Kunst und Museum for German Art (BND). He completed the Masters in German Literature (1943; 1945), German Art and Literature (1948, 1950), American Studies (1950), and Contemporary European Theory (1954; 1968). In 1953 He founded the German Expressionism Foundation (DEFA) that is dedicated to restoring artistic expressions to the world, supporting free speech, artistic experimentation and creative expression. With the organization of Deaf and other non-abnormal forms of deafness he founded Germany's first deaf-friendly company Deutschland in 1958. He also launched the Deutschmührer Klusse zu einer Darmstadt und Nibelungsschwind in 1968.
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