Obituary (1864)

Author(s) Ernst Dronke
Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx
Written 13 May 1864


Printed according to the newspaper
First published in Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 144, May 23, 1864, Supplement
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 19
Collection(s): Allgemeine Zeitung

On May 9 of this year

WILHELM WOLFF, of Tarnau, near Schweidnitz, Silesia, died in Manchester of a brain hemorrhage at the age of almost 55 years. He was Associate Editor of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne and deputy to the German National Assembly in Frankfurt and Stuttgart in 1848 and 1849, and a private tutor in Manchester from 1853.

Manchester, May 13, 1864

Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Ernst Dronke,

Louis Borchardt, M.D.,

Eduard Gumpert, M.D.