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Samuel Moore (1 December 1838 – 20 July 1911) was an English translator, lawyer and colonial administrator. He is best known for the first English translation of ''
Das Kapital ''Das Kapital'', also known as ''Capital: A Critique of Political Economy'' or sometimes simply ''Capital'' (german: Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, link=no, ; 1867–1883), is a foundational theoretical text in materialist phi ...
'' and the only authorised translation of ''
The Communist Manifesto ''The Communist Manifesto'', originally the ''Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (german: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is a political pamphlet written by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Commu ...
'' which was commissioned, thoroughly verified and supplied with footnotes by
Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels ( ,"Engels"
'' pp. 281-282
(first published in 1976)
Erhard Kiehnbaum,
"Samuel Moore", "Beiträge zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung" (BzG.), 17. Jahrg. (1975), H. 6, pp. 1074 - 1081
(retrieved 8 January 2020)
Moore also wrote a summary of a notebook by Marx which was published as Chapter III of the third volume of Das Kapital. Born in
Bamford Bamford is a village in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England, close to the River Derwent. To the north-east is Bamford Edge, and to the north-west the Ladybower, Derwent and Howden Reservoirs. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 1, ...
, Moore was for many years a friend of
Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...
and Engels and their advisor in mathematics, which he had studied at
Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or Oxford. ...
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Samuel (translator of Das Kapital) 1838 births 1911 deaths English translators 19th-century British translators 19th-century English lawyers