# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-mehring
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:27:47.097Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-mehring"
name: "Franz Mehring"
slug: "franz-mehring"
description: "Franz Erdmann Mehring was a German communist historian, literary and art critic, philosopher, and revolutionary socialist politician who was a senior member of the Spartacus League during the German Revolution of 1918–1919. He authored Karl Marx: The Story of His Life (1918), which was long considered the classical biography of Marx."
tagline: "German communist historian, philosopher, and politician (1846–1919)"
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birthDate: "1846-02-27"
deathDate: "1919-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump