Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Chapters: Benjamin Tucker, Max Stirner, Bob Black, Jun Tsuji, Émile Armand, Sakae Osugi, Renzo Novatore, Anselme Bellegarrigue, Georges Palante, Lev Chernyi, Adolf Brand, Zo d'Axa, Alfredo M. Bonanno, John Henry Mackay, Dora Marsden, Bruno Filippi, Steven T. Byington, Victor Basch, Wolfi Landstreicher, Albert Libertad, Victor Yarros, Miguel Giménez Igualada, Hutchins Hapgood, Jason McQuinn, Biofilo Panclasta, John Beverley Robinson, James L. Walker, Emile Gravelle, Dante Carnesecchi, Sidney Parker, Enrico Arrigoni, Henri Zisly. Excerpt: Johann Kaspar Schmidt (October 25, 1806 - June 26, 1856), better known as Max Stirner (the nom de plume he adopted from a schoolyard nickname he had acquired as a child because of his high brow, in German 'Stirn'), was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary fathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism. Stirner's main work is The Ego and Its Own, also known as The Ego and His Own (Der Einzige und sein Eigentum in German, which translates literally as The Unique One and his Property). This work was first published in 1844 in Leipzig, and has since appeared in numerous editions and translations. Max Stirner's birthplace in BayreuthStirner was born in Bayreuth, Bavaria. What little is known of his life is mostly due to the Scottish born German writer John Henry Mackay, who wrote a biography of Stirner (Max Stirner - sein Leben und sein Werk), published in German in 1898 (enlarged 1910, 1914), and translated into English in 2005. Stirner was the only child of Albert Christian Heinrich Schmidt (1769-1807) and Sophia Elenora Reinlein (1778-1839). His father died of tuberculosis on the April 19, 1807 at the age of 37. In 1809 his mother remarried to Heinrich Ballerstedt, a pharmacist, and settled in West Prussian Kulm (now Chelmno, Poland). When Stirner turned 20, he attended the University of Berlin, where he studied Philology, Philosophy and Theology. He attended the lectures of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who was to become a source of inspiration for his thinking. While in Berlin in 1841, Stirner participated in discussions with a group of young philosophers called "Die Freien" ("The Free"), and whom historians have subsequently categorized as the Young Hegelians. Some of the best known names in 19th century literature and philosophy were involved with this discussion group, including Bruno Bauer, Karl Marx (albeit briefly), Friedrich Engels, and Arnold Ruge (though only once). Contrary to pop