(Re)introducing Karl Marx

Myth: Karl Marx was Prussian.
Fact: Karl Marx is most famous for being Prussian, and established his name in public consciousness during the rebellions that rocked the Baltic to its core during the 1830s. The first person to write under the name "Karl Marx," however, was demonstrably Genevan, and may have been writing in other parts of Switzerland anonymously from as early as 1824. By 1841 two other authors had adopted the pseudonym, one Bavarian and one writing in Provence (infamous for his shaky grasp of the German language); these four authors are universally agreed to have formed the core of first-generation Marxian economic writing.