Why was Karl Marx buried at Highgate Cemetery in London?

Question

Why was Karl Marx buried at Highgate Cemetery in London?

Answer 1

I've tried googling it but can't find anything, I've always presumed it was because he was living in the area at the time

Answer 2

He lived in London from 1849, and quite specifically in North London from 1856, and died there in 1883.

So Highgate Cemetery in North London was a 'local' cemetery

Answer 3

because he's deid

Answer 4

because he is dead.

Answer 5

Marx lived in London for the last 34 years of his life (from 1849 to 1883).

From 1856 he and his family lived in north-west London, which was convenient for his research work at the British Library (then housed at the British Museum in Bloomsbury) -- it was also a much better area for a family with young children than Soho, where they were living before.

His first family home in north-west London was 9 Grafton Terrace NW5 4JE (1856-64); he then moved round the corner to 1 Modena Villas (since re-named: you'll find it at 1 Maitland Park Road NW3) and then moved a few doors along, to 41 Maitland Park Road NW3 2EX, in 1875. All three homes are just off Haverstock Hill --  on the borders of Kentish Town, Belsize Park and South End Green in Hampstead. And they're all in the local 'catchment area' for Highgate Cemetery.