16 Facts About Max Beer

Moses "Max" Beer was an Austrian-born Marxist economist, journalist and historian.

Max Beer finished his secondary education at the age of 15 and then spent a year learning French, in order to become a tutor.

In May 1889, Max Beer moved to Germany, settling in Remscheid, where he learned the newspaper trade as a compositor for the Bergische Tageblatt.

Max Beer developed radical political views and moved to Leipzig in 1892 where he began to make the acquaintance of various leaders of the socialist movement.

Max Beer shortly relocated in Magdeburg where he became assistant editor of the Magdeburger Volksstimme, a socialist newspaper.

Max Beer was convicted of these charges and sentenced to 14 months in prison.

Max Beer studied at the London School of Economics from 1895 to 1896, gaining an interest in the emerging intellectual topic of imperialism.

In 1897, Max Beer published his first critique of imperialism, titled Modern English Imperialism.

Max Beer left school to resume his journalistic career, covering the controversial French treason case against Alfred Dreyfus for the press.

In 1901, Vorwaerts lost its London correspondent, Eduard Bernstein, who returned home to Germany and Max Beer was tapped by the paper as his replacement.

Max Beer left his place at the Vorwaerts to pursue more scholastic writing.

Max Beer signed a contract to produce a history of British socialism in the German language, a book which was published in 1913.

In 1919, Max Beer was named as editor of Die Glocke, a socialist periodical owned by Alexander Parvus.

In 1927, Max Beer was invited to Moscow to work at the Marx-Engels Institute by that facility's director, David Ryazanov.

Max Beer lived in the city of Frankfurt am Main, where he worked at the Institut fur Sozialforschung.

Max Beer died of tuberculosis in London on 30 April 1943.