Baptism Certificate of Friedrich Engels

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 18 January 1821


First published in Marx/Engels, Gesamtausgabe, Abt. 1, Bd. 2, 1930
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 2

EXTRACT FROM THE BAPTISM REGISTER

OF THE ELBERFELD

REFORMED EVANGELICAL PARISH

1821, January. Baptised the 18th, Unter-Barmen.

No. 24-[Born] on November 28th at 9 o'clock in the evening Friedrich, legitimate son of the merchant Herr Friedrich Engels, domiciled in Bruch, and Frau Elisabeth Mauritzia Francisca, née van Haar.

The godparents Herr Caspar Engels Senior, and Frau Francisca Cristina van Haar, née Snethlage.