![]() ![]() ![]() He attended a gymnasium but not university (the reasons for this are debated), and worked for his father’s firms in Barmen from 1837-38, and then for three years worked in an office in Bremen. It is recorded that as a child he often gave his savings to the poor. His parents were strict Calvinist Pietists and Engels rebelled against their religion and way of life. ![]() Thus Engels was never unfamiliar with industrial life. This was unusual in Germany-Barmen was one of the first areas in Germany to undergo thorough industrialization. Engels was born in 1820 in Barmen, in the Rhineland, the eldest son of a prosperous mill owner whose father and grandfather had also owned textile mills. ![]()
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