Max Funke (Author)

Max Funke (March 14, 1879 , † September 18, 1943 ) was a German author who became famous at the beginning of the 20th century for an anti-feminist script.

In his 1910 work Are women people? Mulieres homines non sunt , Funke referred, among other things, to the biblical account of creation and the philosophy of Aristotle in order to prove that the woman should not be regarded as a full human being, but as inferior to the man. In connection with the more recent evolutionary theory , he also took the view that women should be classified as a " missing link " in evolutionary history due to their smaller skull volume , as a link between humans and apes, and that they should be assigned the position of "half-human". This makes Funke to this day one of the most frequently quoted authors of anti-feminism.

Fonts

• Sakhalin Island: an ethno-geographical study . Applied Geography, Series 2, Issue 12. Gebauer-Schwetschke, Halle (Saale) 1906.
• Are women human ?: Mulieres homines non sunt. Studies and presentations based on scientific sources . Marhold, Halle (Saale) 1910. 2nd edition Spies, Baden-Baden 1911.

literature

• Leo Oellischek-Wilsdorf: “Are women people?”: A critical study of the brochure of the same name by Max Funke . In: Announcements of the Association of Working Women . 82, 1911.
• Elisabeth Gössmann (Ed.): Whether women are people or not? 2nd Edition. Archive for women's research in the history of philosophy and theology , Volume 4. Iudicium, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-89129-004-7 .