The Estates of Karl Marx and Charles Darwin

Apparently Karl Marx died a poor man and Charles Darwin died a rich man, according to a CNN article and ancestery website Ancestry.co.uk. This information was held in the England and Wales National Probate Calender, 1861-1941.

Karl Marx, the anti-capitalist, who died in 1883, left roughly $395 in his estate.  This translates to $31,600 in today’s dollars. Compare this to Charles Darwin, who had an estate of roughly $232,000 or $20.5 million in todays dollars, when he passed away in 1882.

Other notable estates include John Cadbury, Charles, Dickens, Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle, and Lewis Carroll.

You can read more by visiting the CNN article at Online Database Reveals Estates of Marx, Darwin.