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Name
  
Heinrich Cunow


Role
  
German Politician

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Died
  
August 20, 1936, Berlin, Germany

Party
  
Social Democratic Party of Germany

Heinrich Cunow (11 April 1862, in Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Schwerin – 20 August 1936) was a German Social Democratic Party politician and a Marxist theorist.

Cunow was originally against the First World War in 1914 but later supported it. He edited the Social Democratic theoretical journal Die Neue Zeit from 1917 to 1923, after Karl Kautsky. Cunow was appointed in 1919 as an associate professor of social sciences and economic history at the Frederick William University of Berlin.

Selected works

  • Zur Urgeschichte der Ehe und Familie, 1912 – On the prehistory of marriage and family.
  • Ursprung der Religion und des Gottesglaubens, 1913 – Origin of religion and the faith of God.
  • Die Marxsche Geschichts-, Gesellschafts- und Staatstheorie; Grundzüge der Marxschen Soziologie, 1920/21 – Marxist theory of history, society and the state; principles of Marxist sociology.
  • Geschichte und Kultur des Inkareiches; ein Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte Altamerikas, 1935 – History and culture of the Incan Empire; a contribution to the cultural history of America.

    • References

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