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max stirner , as portrayed by friedrich engels 26 june 1856 berlin , prussia julius , friedrich engels , karl marx , saul newman , evola friedrich nietzsche , benjamin r. tucker , john henry mackay , , ernst jünger , rudolf steiner , emile armand , frank albert camus , carl schmitt , renzo novatore , adolf brand brand , emma goldman , bob black , miguel gimenez , igualada , wolfi landstreicher , herbert read , robert anton steven wilson , wilhelm reich , gustav landauer t. byington 19th-century philosophy bayreuth , bavaria egoism hegel smith , j.-b . say , ludwig feuerbach , bruno bauer , adam ethics theory , politics , ontology , property , value egoist anarchism october 25 , 1806 max stirner.jpg max stirner
 johann kaspar schmidt western philosophy
max stirner

johann kaspar schmidt -lrb- october 25 , 1806 -- june 26 , 1856 -rrb- , better known as max stirner , was a german philosopher .
he is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism , existentialism , postmodernism , and anarchism , especially of individualist anarchism .
stirner 's main work is `` the ego and its own '' , also known as `` the ego and his own '' -lrb- `` der einzige und sein eigentum '' in german , which translates literally as `` the unique one and his property '' -rrb- .
this work was first published in 1845 in leipzig , and has since appeared in numerous editions and translations .
