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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Johann Caspar Schmidt in Bayreuth in 1806, he lost his father early and grew up in West Prussia after his mother remarried. He studied at the University of Berlin, sitting in on Hegel's lectures, then drifted into teaching and the Young Hegelians' late-night arguments. He never landed a permanent academic post, so he kept teaching on the side while writing. In 1844 he published The Ego and Its Own under the pen name Max Stirner — a book that torched every collective ideal and declared the self sovereign. He married twice: first to Agnes Burtz, who died in 1838, then to Marie Dähnhardt. A failed business venture left him broke, and he spent his last years translating and writing in near-obscurity. He died in Berlin in 1856, largely forgotten, though his radical individualism would later seed nihilism, existentialism, and anarchist thought.