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Max Haushofer
1840–1907
A Munich-born economist, politician, and literary writer, he moved easily between public life and imaginative fiction. Best remembered today for a rare early science-fiction novel, he also wrote poetry, drama, and works on Bavarian places and culture.
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Tirol
by Max Haushofer
About the author
Born in Munich in 1840, he was the son of the landscape painter Max Haushofer and spent part of his youth in Prague. Sources describe him as a German economist and statistician who also built a career as a politician and professor, while writing well beyond academic subjects.
Alongside specialist works, he published poems, dramas, stories, and regional writing. The Bavarian literature portal notes that his best-known book is Planetenfeuer (1899), a utopian novel that has helped keep his name alive with later readers interested in early speculative fiction.
He died in 1907, with sources giving Gries near Bozen as the place of death. His life sits at an interesting crossroads of scholarship, civic engagement, and literature, which gives his work a distinctive mix of ideas and storytelling.