Anton Menger

Anton Menger von Wolfensgrün (12 September 1841, Maniowy - now under the Czorsztyn Lake, Galicia – 6 February 1906, Rome), was an Austrian juridical expert and social theorist who aside from his collegiate works predominantly dedicated himself to propagating socialist literature on juridical grounds.

Menger was a university professor for the law of civil process in Vienna from 1874 until 1899, where he was also the Vice Chancellor from 1895 to 1896.

His juridical interests are assumed to be different than Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in dealing with all theoretical legal issues.

His name is also famous in connection with the collection of original socialist literature in Vienna.

Friedrich Engels and Karl Kautsky tried to grapple with Menger's (1886) attacks on Marx's Das Kapital as well as his fundamental project to ground socialism in legal theory in "Juridical Socialism" ("Die Neue Zeit", 2, Jg.