Karl Marx was 13 years old when Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel died.

What we found

Supports. The Wikipedia timeline gives Hegel's death as 14 November 1831 and says his ideas influenced Marx's work, which fits the claim's timeline.[1]

Supports. Marx's birth date of 5 May 1818 is consistent across several reference sources, so on 14 November 1831 he was 13.[1][2][3]

Supports. Two lower-credibility sources state directly that Marx was 13 when Hegel died.[4][5]

Context. The claim matches the passage's own wording, and the claimant's remark is used only to identify the claim, not as evidence.

Sources

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1. 1Timeline of Karl Marx - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports
2. 2Karl Marx Factsbritannica.com · not rated · cited for: supports
3. 3Karl Marx | Encyclopedia.comencyclopedia.com · not rated · cited for: supports
4. 47nrVCxIFpedVaovVw5g4scribd.com · not rated · cited for: supports
5. 5Philosophy Weekend: Our Hegelian Times : Literary Kickslitkicks.com · not rated · cited for: supports

Where this claim was made

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• The Pete Quiñones Show · Oct 1, 2026“Hegel, being a nationalist, didn't like the idea, and of course they were going to be synthesized, you know, the family, civil society. That dialectic leads to the state, which uses both. It's a very profound aspect of nationalist political thought. Um, Marx's early view, you know, the party would absorb civil society, and that's where human emancipation would, would take place. Um, so that's how he, that's how he begins. So let me quote Marx here. Early on, in The Jewish Question, he says... Um, now, religion, you know, if anyone, you know, Hegel was not a, he was an influence on Marx, but he didn't teach, you know, Marx was 13 when Hegel died.”Post →

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