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Max Haushofer
1840–1907
A 19th-century German writer, economist, and public thinker, he moved easily between scholarship, politics, and imaginative literature. He is especially remembered for pairing serious social interests with poems, stories, and a notable utopian novel.
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Tirol
by Max Haushofer
About the author
Born in Munich in 1840, Max Haushofer Jr. grew up in an artistic family and spent part of his youth in Prague. He later studied law and political economy, and went on to become a professor of economics and statistics at the Technical University of Munich. Alongside academic work, he was also active in public life as a politician.
Haushofer wrote far beyond his scholarly field. Sources describe him as a poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist, and note that he published both specialist works and writing rooted in Bavarian places and culture. Literaturportal Bayern highlights his 1899 utopian novel Planetenfeuer as his most important literary work.
He died in 1907 in Gries near Bolzano. What makes him especially interesting today is the range of his career: he was not only a professor and statistician, but also a literary author who brought imagination and philosophical curiosity into his writing.