Yazar: Steven T. Byington

Max Stirner, pseudonym of Johann Kaspar Schmidt, (1806, Bayreuth, Bavaria [Germany]died 1856, Berlin, Prussia), German antistatist philosopher in whose writings many anarchists of the late 19th and the 20th centuries found ideological inspiration. His thought is sometimes regarded as a source of 20th-century existentialism.After teaching in a girls preparatory school in Berlin, Stirner made a scanty living as a translator, preparing what became a standard German version of Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations. He contributed articles to the liberal periodical Rheinische Zeitung, which was in part edited by Karl Marx. Later Marx tried to refute Stirners ideas, ironically calling him Sankt Max (Saint Max). His most influential work is Der Einzige und sein Eigentum (1845; The Ego and His Own).