Franz Mehring

Franz Erdmann Mehring (27 February 1846 – 28 January 1919) 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. Provided by Wikipedia