Edward Aveling
British biologist (1849-1898) · Scientists · Died at 48
Edward Bibbins Aveling was an English comparative anatomist, botanist and popular spokesman for Darwinian evolution, atheism, and socialism. He was also a journalist and editor, playwright and actor, short story writer and poet.
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Aveling's teaching adverts in Nature November 1875
New College, London Faculty list 1873
Title page of the first English-language edition of Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, published in London by Swan Sonnenschein & Co. in 1892
Wilhelm Liebknecht, Eleanor Marx and Aveling in North America, 1886About this person
Aveling was the author of scientific works and numerous literary and political pamphlets that were published by The Freethought Publishing Company; he is perhaps best known for his popular work The Student's Darwin (1881); he also translated the first volume of Karl Marx's Das Kapital and Friedrich Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.
