Max Stirner

Max Stirner
Max Stirner
	Stirner as portrayed by Friedrich Engels
Born	Johann Kaspar Schmidt; 25 October 1806; Bayreuth, Kingdom of Bavaria
Died	26 June 1856 (aged 49); Berlin, Prussia, German Confederation
Education	Gymnasium illustre zu Bayreuth; University of Berlin (no degree); University of Erlangen (no degree);
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy; Egoism; Anti-foundationalism; Dialectical egoism; Egoist anarchism (post-mortem); Post-Hegelianism; Young Hegelians (early);
Main interests	Egoism, ethics, ontology, pedagogy, philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, philosophy of education, property theory, psychology, value theory, philosophy of love, dialectic
Notable ideas	Personalism in education; Eigenheit (transl. ownness); creative nothing; self-forgetfulness; insurrection; Der Einzige (The Unique); "Property-worlds"; Union of egoists;

Johann Kaspar Schmidt (25 October 1806 – 26 June 1856), known professionally as Max Stirner, was a German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism and individualist anarchism.

Stirner's main work, The Unique and Its Property (German: Der Einzige und sein Eigentum), was first published in 1844 in Leipzig and has since appeared in numerous editions and translations.

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