Maximilian Smurf (Empath stories)

Maximilian (most commonly referred to as Max) is a Smurf character who is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. He is the father of Culinary Smurf, who along with Baker Smurf is the village chef who cooks food for his fellow Smurfs. He is a descendant of the Schlumpf clan and speaks with a very heavy German accent.

About 50 years later, he along with his wife succumbed to the same unknown disease that claimed the lives of all their fellow Smurfs except for Papa Smurf. Culinary was then left in the care of Papa Smurf along with 97 other young Smurfs his age.

Years later, during the events in the story "Days Of Auld Lang Smurf", Maximilian supposedly came back from the dead to meet his grown-up son. However, Smurfette, Polaris Psyche, and the Smurflings discover and reveal the truth that the "resurrected" Maximilian was just an illusion created by the Auld Lang Syne Spell that the evil witch, Chlorhydris, had cast upon the Smurfs.