Josef von Neupauer

Josef von Neupauer was an Austrian writer listed in reference sources as living from 1810 to 1902. Although biographical details are scarce in the sources available here, he is specifically identified as a writer and is distinct from other men of the same name, including a jurist and a politician.

He is best known today for Oesterreich im Jahre 2020: Socialpolitischer Roman, a German-language novel preserved by Project Gutenberg. The catalog record describes it as a socio-political novel and credits him as its author, showing that his writing engaged with questions of society, politics, and the imagined future.

That futuristic title is part of what makes Neupauer interesting now. Even with limited surviving background information, he stands out as a 19th-century Austrian author who used fiction to think far ahead of his own time.