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'''Samuel Moore''' (1 December 1838 – 20 July 1911) was an English translator, lawyer and colonial administrator.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Kiehnbaum |first=Erhard |date=1975 |title=Samuel Moore |url=http://www.ekiehnbaum.de/Samuel%20Moore.pdf |url-status=live |format=PDF |journal=Beiträge zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (BzG.) |language=de |volume=17. Jahrg. |issue=H. 6 |pages=1074-1081 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108205652/http://www.ekiehnbaum.de/Samuel%20Moore.pdf |archive-date=2022-11-08}}</ref He is best known for the first English translation of {{Lang|de|[[Das Kapital]]}} and the only authorised translation of ''[[The Communist Manifesto]]'' which was thoroughly verified and supplied with footnotes by [[Friedrich Engels]].<ref name="hender">{{Cite book |last=Henderson |first=W. O. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sV7-AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA282 |title=Friedrich Engels |date=2013-11-05 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-62918-1 |pages=281-282 |language=en |orig-date=first published in 1976 as ''The Life of Friedrich Engels''}}</ref><!-- The Henderson ref contains a considerable bio sketch of Moore, but I am lazy to type --><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Kiehnbaum |first=Erhard |date=1975 |title=Samuel Moore |url=http://www.ekiehnbaum.de/Samuel%20Moore.pdf |url-status=live |format=PDF |journal=Beiträge zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (BzG.) |language=de |volume=17. Jahrg. |issue=H. 6 |pages=1074-1081 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108205652/http://www.ekiehnbaum.de/Samuel%20Moore.pdf |archive-date=2022-11-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Engels |first=Friedrich |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5YfoW8fhzkC&q=Moore&pg=PA41 |title=The Communist Manifesto |last2=Marx |first2=Karl |date=2004-08-30 |publisher=Broadview Press |isbn=978-1-55111-333-3 |language=en |chapter=A Note on the Text}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Guback |first=Thomas |last2=Bettig |first2=Ronald |date=July 1987 |title=Translating the Manifesto into English; Nineteenth Century Communication, Twentieth Century Confusion |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/019685998701100201 |journal=Journal of Communication Inquiry |language=en |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=3–16 |doi=10.1177/019685998701100201 |issn=0196-8599 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Moore also wrote a summary of a notebook by Marx which was published as Chapter III of the [[Das Kapital, Volume III|third volume of Das Kapital]].<ref name="CapitalVol3Preface">{{cite book |last=Marx |first=Karl |url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/pref.htm |title=Capital, Vol. III |date=1894 |location= |chapter=Preface |author-link=Karl Marx}}</ref>
'''Samuel Moore''' (1 December 1838 – 20 July 1911) was an English translator, lawyer and colonial administrator.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Kiehnbaum |first=Erhard |date=1975 |title=Samuel Moore |url=http://www.ekiehnbaum.de/Samuel%20Moore.pdf |url-status=live |format=PDF |journal=Beiträge zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (BzG.) |language=de |volume=17. Jahrg. |issue=H. 6 |pages=1074-1081 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108205652/http://www.ekiehnbaum.de/Samuel%20Moore.pdf |archive-date=2022-11-08}}</ref> He is best known for the first English translation of {{Lang|de|[[Das Kapital]]}} and the only authorised translation of ''[[The Communist Manifesto]]'' which was thoroughly verified and supplied with footnotes by [[Friedrich Engels]].<ref name="hender">{{Cite book |last=Henderson |first=W. O. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sV7-AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA282 |title=Friedrich Engels |date=2013-11-05 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-62918-1 |pages=281-282 |language=en |orig-date=first published in 1976 as ''The Life of Friedrich Engels''}}</ref><!-- The Henderson ref contains a considerable bio sketch of Moore, but I am lazy to type --><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Kiehnbaum |first=Erhard |date=1975 |title=Samuel Moore |url=http://www.ekiehnbaum.de/Samuel%20Moore.pdf |url-status=live |format=PDF |journal=Beiträge zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (BzG.) |language=de |volume=17. Jahrg. |issue=H. 6 |pages=1074-1081 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108205652/http://www.ekiehnbaum.de/Samuel%20Moore.pdf |archive-date=2022-11-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Engels |first=Friedrich |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5YfoW8fhzkC&q=Moore&pg=PA41 |title=The Communist Manifesto |last2=Marx |first2=Karl |date=2004-08-30 |publisher=Broadview Press |isbn=978-1-55111-333-3 |language=en |chapter=A Note on the Text}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Guback |first=Thomas |last2=Bettig |first2=Ronald |date=July 1987 |title=Translating the Manifesto into English; Nineteenth Century Communication, Twentieth Century Confusion |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/019685998701100201 |journal=Journal of Communication Inquiry |language=en |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=3–16 |doi=10.1177/019685998701100201 |issn=0196-8599 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Moore also wrote a summary of a notebook by Marx which was published as Chapter III of the [[Das Kapital, Volume III|third volume of Das Kapital]].<ref name="CapitalVol3Preface">{{cite book |last=Marx |first=Karl |url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/pref.htm |title=Capital, Vol. III |date=1894 |location= |chapter=Preface |author-link=Karl Marx}}</ref>


Born in [[Bamford]], Moore was for many years a friend of [[Karl Marx]] and Engels<ref>{{Cite book |last=Elwell |first=Frank L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pQNB7d6RQGcC&pg=PR15 |title=Sociocultural Systems: Principles of Structure and Change |date=2013 |publisher=Athabasca University Press |isbn=978-1-927356-20-3 |pages=xv |language=en |chapter=Preface}}</ref> and their advisor in mathematics,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Damsma |first=Dirk |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sHu9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA92 |title=How Language Informs Mathematics: Bridging Hegelian Dialectics and Marxian Models |date=2019-11-11 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-39549-7 |pages=92 |language=en}}</ref> which he had studied at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name="CapitalVol3Preface"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Search Results for 'Samuel Moore' |url=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 |url-status=live |archive-url=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 |archive-date=2022-11-29 |access-date=2023-11-02 |website=ACAD – A Cambridge Alumni Database}}</ref>
Born in [[Bamford]], Moore was for many years a friend of [[Karl Marx]] and Engels<ref>{{Cite book |last=Elwell |first=Frank L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pQNB7d6RQGcC&pg=PR15 |title=Sociocultural Systems: Principles of Structure and Change |date=2013 |publisher=Athabasca University Press |isbn=978-1-927356-20-3 |pages=xv |language=en |chapter=Preface}}</ref> and their advisor in mathematics,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Damsma |first=Dirk |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sHu9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA92 |title=How Language Informs Mathematics: Bridging Hegelian Dialectics and Marxian Models |date=2019-11-11 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-39549-7 |pages=92 |language=en}}</ref> which he had studied at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name="CapitalVol3Preface"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Search Results for 'Samuel Moore' |url=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 |url-status=live |archive-url=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 |archive-date=2022-11-29 |access-date=2023-11-02 |website=ACAD – A Cambridge Alumni Database}}</ref>

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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

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  1. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b 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.
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