Brix Förster

Brix Förster was born on May 10, 1836. A Wikipedia list of graduates of the Bavarian War Academy identifies him as a member of the academy’s first course and notes that he later held the rank of Oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel), retiring in 1888.

He also appears in library and public-domain records as an author. Project Gutenberg lists him as "Förster, Brix, 1836-", and Wikisource preserves his 1891 article Die Vertheilung Afrikas unter die europäischen Mächte, published in Die Gartenlaube. That piece presents the late-19th-century scramble for Africa for a general audience, showing him as a writer of current-affairs and explanatory prose rather than fiction.

Because easily available biographical information is quite limited, only a sketch of his life can be confirmed from the sources found here. Even so, the record that remains points to a figure who moved between military service and public writing, bringing contemporary geopolitical questions into one of the era’s major illustrated magazines.