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Birth Certificate of Friedrich Engels
| Author(s) | Friedrich Engels |
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| Written | 5 December 1820 |
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 2
BARMEN, DECEMBER 5, 1820, EXTRACT FROM THE BARMEN REGISTER OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES
No. 659. Birth of Friedrich Engels, November 28, 1820.
In the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, on
December 5 at half past three in the afternoon, there appeared before me, Peter Wichelhausen, Deputy of the Parish of Barmen, the merchant Herr Friedrich Engels domiciled in Brucher Rotte to notify that on Tuesday, the 28th day of November at nine o’clock in the evening, a child of the male sex, to whom he gave the first name of Friedrich, was born to him by his wife, Elisabeth Francisca Mauritzia, née van Hoar.
Witnesses to this proceeding were: Herr Peter Gottfried Schmits, twenty-six years of age, secretary, domiciled in Gemarke, and Herr Johann Jacob Helmes, thirty-two years of age, secretary, domiciled in Werther Rotte.
After this had been read to them the declarants signed: (signed) Friedrich Engels, Jac. Schmits, J. Helmes
The Deputy (signed) Wichelhausen