I just ordered the new biography of Ludwig von Mises by Jorg Guido Hulsmann from the Mises Institute.

While reading the description of the book at this link, I remembered a Hillsdale College book I have from their Champions of Freedom, The Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series tribute to Mises masterpiece (in my not so humble opinion), Human Action.

One of the presentations included was by Hans Sennholz titled Ludwig von Mises: Valiant Defender of Freedom.

He notes that:

The crucial test of an intellectual pioneer and great scholar is that he instill in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. Ludwig von Mises was such a man; he taught two generations of scholars who in turn enlightened more generations of students about the inadequacies of socialism and interventionism. For more than half a century, at first in Austria and Switzerland and then in the United States, he was the dean of liberalism who confronted worldwide socialism, never wavering or compromising, unaffected by the scorn and ridicule of his adversaries, or by the temptations of this world.

Sennholz was also a great libertarian by the way.

I can’t wait to receive my copy of the book, Mises The Last Knight of Liberalism.