Auguste Cornu


Auguste Cornu was a French Marxist philosopher and historian of Marxism.

Life

Auguste Cornu was born on 9 August 1888 in Beaune, France. He joined the French [Section of the Workers' International] in 1913, and later joined the French Communist Party in 1944. Cornu's 1934 doctoral thesis was the first academic thesis on Karl Marx. A member of the French resistance, he moved to East Berlin after World War II. From 1949 to 1956 he was Professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Works

  • Karl Marx: L’Homme et l'oeuvre: De l’Hégélianisme au matérialisme historique . Paris, 1934.
  • Karl Marx und die Entwicklung des modernen Denkens. Berlin, 1950.
  • Essai de critique marxiste. Paris, 1951.
  • Karl Marx et Friedrich Engels. Leur vie et leur oeuvre. Paris, 1955.
  • Karl Marx: Die ökonomisch-philosophischen Manuskripte. Berlin, 1955.