Educator.
Supposedly born at Leipzig, Germany around 1868, and a sometime-professor at a German university, he appeared in Winnipeg around 1905 as Principal of the Manitoba Institute of Mental Sciences, located on Main Street near William Avenue. He described himself as “Consulting Hygienist, Medical Electrician, Naturopath, and Phrenologist.” The Institute offered a lending library and served as an early centre for radical thought in Winnipeg. He was a disciple of American political philosopher Henry George (1839-1897) and a founder of the Single Tax League of Manitoba. He disappeared from Winnipeg around 1910 and died at Victoria, British Columbia on 18 February 1938.
Death registration [Robert Max Mobius], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
“R. M. Mobius dies at coast,” Winnipeg Tribune, 7 June 1938. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B9]
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, December 1999, 288 pages.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 3 July 2026
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