Jenny von Westphalen

Johanna Bertha Julie "Jenny" Freiin von Westphalen (February 12, 1814, Salzwedel – December 2, 1881, London) married (1843) the philosopher Karl Marx (1818-1883). Jenny von Westphalen's father, Johann Ludwig von Westphalen, the first Freiherr (Baron) von Westphalen (1770-1842), a former widower with four previous children, served as a professor at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. Her mother, the Freiherr's second wife Caroline Heubel, li... more

Johanna Bertha Julie "Jenny" Freiin von Westphalen (February 12, 1814, Salzwedel – December 2, 1881, London) married (1843) the philosopher Karl Marx (1818-1883). Jenny von Westphalen's father, Johann Ludwig von Westphalen, the first Freiherr (Baron) von Westphalen (1770-1842), a former widower with four previous children, served as a professor at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. Her mother, the Freiherr's second wife Caroline Heubel, lived from c. 1775 to 1856. Jenny von Westphalen had no sisters; her brother Edgar, Freiherr von Westphalen (born in Trier on March 26, 1819) died in Berlin on September 30, 1890. Her paternal grandfather Christian Heinrich von Westphalen (1723-1792) married Jenny Wishart of Pittarow (1742-1811), from Scottish nobility, a relation of the Earl of Argyll. Jenny von Westphalen and Karl Marx married on June 19, 1843 in the Kreuznacher Pauluskirche (the Kreuznach church of Saint Paul), Bad Kreuznach. Following their marriage, Karl and Jenny Marx... less