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JAKOB, LUDWIG HEINRICH VON (1759—1827)

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JAKOB, LUDWIG HEINRICH VON (1759—1827)

JAKOB, See also:
LUDWIG, KARL FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1816—1895)
LUDWIG, OTTO (1813-1865)
LUDWIG HEINRICH VON (1759—1827) , See also:

German economist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

WETTIN

Wettin on the 26th of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1759. In 1777 he entered the university of See also:

Halle. In 178o he was appointed teacher at the gymnasium, and in 1791 See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy at the university. The suppression of the university of Halle having been decreed by See also:

NAPOLEON

Napoleon, Jakob betook himself to See also:

Russia, where in 1807 he was appointed professor of See also:

POLITICAL

political See also:

ECONOMY

economy at Kharkoff, and in 18o9 a member of the See also:

government See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission to inquire into the finances of the See also:

EMPIRE

empire. In the following See also:

YEAR

year he became See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the commission for the revision of criminal See also:

law, and he at the same See also:

time obtained an important See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office in the See also:

FINANCE

finance See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department, with the See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of counsellor of See also:

state; but in 1816 he returned to Halle to occupy the See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of political economy. He died at See also:

LAUCHSTADT

Lauchstadt on the 22nd of See also:

JULY

July 1827. Shortly after his first See also:

APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment to a professorship in Halle Jakob had begun to turn his See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention rather to the See also:

PRACTICAL

practical than the speculative See also:

side of philosophy, and in 1805 he published at Halle Lehrbuch der Nationalokonomie, in which he was the first to II See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate in See also:

Germany the See also:

NECESSITY (Lat. necessitas)

necessity of a distinct See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science dealing specially with the subject of See also:

NATIONAL

national See also:

WEALTH

wealth. His See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal other See also:

WORKS

works are Grundriss der all gemeinen Logik (Halle, 1788) ; Grundsatze der Polizeigesetzgebung and Polizeianstalten (See also:

LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 18o9); Einleitung in See also:

DES

des Studium der Staalswissenschaften (Halle, 1819) ; Entwurf eines Criminalgesetzbuchs See also:

FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur das russische Reich (Halle, 1818) and Staatsfinanzwissenschaft (2 vols., Halle, 1821).

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