Marguerite Kuczynski

Marguerite Kuczynski (née Steinfeld; 5 December 1904 – 15 January 1998) was a German economist and literary scholar. Some of her most productive and best documented years were spent in England, where she also achieved some notability as a feminist campaigner.

Biography Marguerite Steinfeld was born in 1904 in Bischheim, a small town just to the north of Strasbourg, and at that time part of the German Empire. When she was 14, the entire region was transferred to France following Germany's defeat in World War I. Steinfeld trained initially to work as a teacher. By 1920 she was studying at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., where an early influence was the eminent statistician Ethelbert Stewart. They subsequently worked together and on 18 September 1928 they were married. In 1927 Steinfeld had taken a position as a research assistant at the recently established National Bureau of Economic Research, Eventually, in January 1936, emigration could be put off no longer, however,

In England the two of them continued their work as left-wing economists while also engaging in anti-fascist activities, some of it legal: some not. She also participated in anti-fascist immigrant organisations and, later in the decade, established a library for the English branch of the . She also organised numerous support actions and assisted with the visa applications of German refugees persecuted for reasons of politics or race.

World War II ended in May 1945, with Berlin now at the heart of the Soviet occupation zone in what remained of Germany. Several months after her husband, Marguerite Kuczynski returned to Berlin in March 1947; the couple at first lived in the same house they had inhabited before the war. It was now considered within the city's US occupation zone. Her contribution to the new edition of The Poverty of Philosophy was much enhanced by her use of an early French language edition, discovered following intensive research in Japan, in which Marx himself had penned extensive margin notes.