Image: Friedrich Engels-1840-cropped

Description: A famous early photograph of Friedrich Engels, which has been asserted as showing him at age 25 in 1845,[1] at age 20 in 1840,[2] at age 21 in 1842,[3] "in his twenties",[4] and at other ages in other years according to other claimants or guessers. One claims that it is Engels between 1857 an 1859 (Jenny Marx wrote to Conrad Schramm 8th. December 1857: „Apropos. Wir haben die Photographien von Freiligrath und Engels. Wenn es Ihnen nicht zu lästig ist, lassen Sie uns doch auch eine von sich machen. Karl hätte so gerne seine besten Freunde im Bilde um sich.“ . Friedrich Leßner wrote about a photography of Friedrich Engels: „1859 schrieb ich einen Brief an Engels, in dem ich ihn nebenbei um eine Photographie ersuchte; ich erhielt diese nebst einem ausgezeichneten Briefe.“ (Mohr und General, Dietz, Berlin 1964, p. 465. Leßner had lost that letter in 1902. There is no original photography, only a copy from the frontpage made in 1929 in Moskow.
Title: Friedrich Engels-1840-cropped
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