Samuel Moore (translator) explained

Samuel Moore (1 December 1838 – 20 July 1911) was an English translator, lawyer and colonial administrator.[1] He is best known for the first English translation of and the only authorised translation of The Communist Manifesto which was thoroughly verified and supplied with footnotes by Friedrich Engels.[2] [3] [4] [5] Moore also wrote a summary of a notebook by Marx which was published as Chapter III of the third volume of Das Kapital.[6]

Born in Bamford, Moore was for many years a friend of Karl Marx and Engels[7] and their advisor in mathematics,[8] which he had studied at Trinity College, Cambridge.[6] [9]

Notes and References

  1. Kiehnbaum . Erhard . 1975 . Samuel Moore . live . Beiträge zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (BZG.) . de . 17. Jahrg. . H. 6 . 1074–1081 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221108205652/http://www.ekiehnbaum.de/Samuel%20Moore.pdf . 2022-11-08.
  2. Book: Henderson, W. O. . Friedrich Engels . 2013-11-05 . Routledge . 978-1-136-62918-1 . 281–282 . en . first published in 1976 as The Life of Friedrich Engels.
  3. Kiehnbaum . Erhard . 1975 . Samuel Moore . live . Beiträge zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (BZG.) . de . 17. Jahrg. . H. 6 . 1074–1081 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221108205652/http://www.ekiehnbaum.de/Samuel%20Moore.pdf . 2022-11-08.
  4. Book: Engels . Friedrich . https://books.google.com/books?id=N5YfoW8fhzkC&q=Moore&pg=PA41 . The Communist Manifesto . Marx . Karl . 2004-08-30 . Broadview Press . 978-1-55111-333-3 . en . A Note on the Text.
  5. Guback . Thomas . Bettig . Ronald . July 1987 . Translating the Manifesto into English; Nineteenth Century Communication, Twentieth Century Confusion . Journal of Communication Inquiry . en . 11 . 2 . 3–16 . 10.1177/019685998701100201 . 0196-8599 . free.
  6. Book: Marx, Karl . Capital, Vol. III . 1894 . Preface . Karl Marx.
  7. Book: Elwell, Frank L. . https://books.google.com/books?id=pQNB7d6RQGcC&pg=PR15 . Sociocultural Systems: Principles of Structure and Change . 2013 . Athabasca University Press . 978-1-927356-20-3 . xv . en . Preface.
  8. Book: Damsma, Dirk . How Language Informs Mathematics: Bridging Hegelian Dialectics and Marxian Models . 2019-11-11 . BRILL . 978-90-04-39549-7 . 92 . en.
  9. Web site: Search Results for 'Samuel Moore' . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221129203545/https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=Moore&suro=w&fir=Samuel&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 . 2022-11-29 . 2023-11-02 . ACAD – A Cambridge Alumni Database.