Falk was born to an impoverished Hungarian Jewish merchant family in Pest, which was a separate town (on the east bank of the river Danube) that was later united with the towns of Buda and Óbuda (on the west bank of the river Danube) in 1873 to form Budapest, the capital of Hungary.
He studied at the Faculty of Arts in Vienna.
At the age of 15, he already wrote articles for German-speaking newspapers in Pest. He returned to Pest in 1848, but soon he went back to Vienna. From 1867 he lived in Hungary.
Between 1850 and 1860, he joined the circle of István Széchenyi, who at that time lived in Döbling, Austria.
He supported the Compromise of 1867 with his articles From 1875, he became the representative of the Liberal Party founded by Ferenc Deák.
He was representative of cities Kőszeg, Arad and Keszthely in several periods.
The party collapsed in 1905 and Miksa Falk retired.
Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
