Max Stirner

Johann Kaspar Schmidt better known as Max Stirner, was a German philosopher who is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism, and individualist anarchism. Stirner's main work, The Ego and Its Own, also known as The Unique And Its Property, or, literally, The Individual and His Property, was first published in 1845 in Leipzig and has since appeared in numerous editions and translations. Stirner died on 26 June in 1856 in Berlin from an infected insect bite and it is said that Bruno Bauerwas the only Young Hegelian present at his funeral. After The Ego and Its Own, Stirner wrote Stirner's Critics and translated Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Jean-Baptiste Say's Traite d'Economie Politique into German to little financial gain.