Samuel Moore (translator)

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 Das Kapital and the only authorised translation of The Communist Manifesto which was thoroughly verified and supplied with footnotes by Friedrich Engels.^[2][1][3][4] Moore also wrote a summary of a notebook by Marx which was published as Chapter III of the third volume of Das Kapital.^[5]

Born in Bamford, Moore was for many years a friend of Karl Marx and Engels^[6] and their advisor in mathematics,^[7] which he had studied at Trinity College, Cambridge.^[1][5][8]

References

1. Kiehnbaum, Erhard (1975). "Samuel Moore" (PDF). Beiträge zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (BZG.) (in German). 17. Jahrg. (H. 6): 1074–1081. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 November 2022.
2. Henderson, W. O. (5 November 2013) [first published in 1976 as The Life of Friedrich Engels]. Friedrich Engels. Routledge. pp. 281–282. ISBN 978-1-136-62918-1.
3. Engels, Friedrich; Marx, Karl (30 August 2004). "A Note on the Text". The Communist Manifesto. Broadview Press. ISBN 978-1-55111-333-3.
4. Guback, Thomas; Bettig, Ronald (July 1987). "Translating the Manifesto into English; Nineteenth Century Communication, Twentieth Century Confusion". Journal of Communication Inquiry. 11 (2): 3–16. doi:10.1177/019685998701100201. ISSN 0196-8599.
5. Marx, Karl (1894). "Preface". Capital, Vol. III.
6. Elwell, Frank L. (2013). "Preface". Sociocultural Systems: Principles of Structure and Change. Athabasca University Press. pp. xv. ISBN 978-1-927356-20-3.
7. Damsma, Dirk (11 November 2019). How Language Informs Mathematics: Bridging Hegelian Dialectics and Marxian Models. BRILL. p. 92. ISBN 978-90-04-39549-7.
8. "Search Results for 'Samuel Moore'". ACAD – A Cambridge Alumni Database. Archived from the original on 29 November 2022. Retrieved 2 November 2023.