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HAXTHAUSEN, See also:AUGUST See also:FRANZ See also:LUDWIG MARIA, FREIHERR VON (1792—1866) , See also:German See also:political economist, was See also:born near See also:Paderborn in See also:Westphalia on the 3rd of See also:February 1792. Having studied at the school of See also:mining at Klausthal, and having served in the Hanoverian See also:army, he entered the university of See also:Gottingen in 1815. See also:Finishing his course there in 1818 he was engaged in managing his estates and in studying the See also:land See also:laws. The result of his studies appeared in 1829 when he published Uber See also:die Agrarverfassung in den Fiirstentumern Paderborn and See also:Corvey, a See also:work which attracted much See also:attention and which procured for its author a See also:commission to investigate and See also:report upon the Iand laws of the Prussian provinces with a view to a new See also:code. After nine years of labour he published in 1839 an exhaustive See also:treatise, Die landliche Verfassung in der Provinz Preussen, and in 1843, at the See also:request of the See also:emperor See also:Nicholas, he undertook a similar work for See also:Russia, the fruits of his investigations in that See also:country being contained in his Studien fiber die innern Zustdnde See also:des Volkslebens, and insbesondere die land-See also:lichen Einrichtungen Russlands (See also:Hanover, 184.7—'1852). He received various honours, was a member of the combined See also:diet in See also:Berlin in 1847 and 1848, and afterwards of the Prussian upper See also:house. Haxthausen died at Hanover on the 31st of See also:December 1866. In addition to the See also:works already mentioned he wrote Die landliche Verfassung Russlands (See also:Leipzig, 1866). His Studien has been translated into See also:French and into See also:English by R. Farie as The See also:Russian See also:Empire (1856). Other works of his which have appeared in English are: See also:Transcaucasia; Sketches of the Nations and Races between the See also:Black See also:Sea and the See also:Caspian (1854), and The Tribes of the See also:Caucasus (1855). Haxthausen edited Das konstitutionelle Prinzip (Leipzig, 1864), a collection of political writings by various authors, which has been translated into French (1865).

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