Max Haushofer

Born in Munich on April 23, 1840, Max Haushofer Jr. came from a family of artists and scholars: his father was the landscape painter Max Haushofer. He studied economics and statistics, earned a doctorate and habilitation in the 1860s, and later became a professor at the Technical University of Munich.

Alongside his academic work in political economy and statistics, he also wrote widely as a literary author. His output included poems, dramas, stories, regional writing, and longer narrative works, showing an unusual range for a scholar of his time.

His best-known literary work is the utopian novel Planetenfeuer from 1899. Haushofer died in Gries near Bolzano in April 1907; sources differ on whether the date was April 9 or April 10.