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SCHMOLLER, GUSTAV (1838– )

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SCHMOLLER, GUSTAV (1838– ) , See also:German See also:political economist, was See also:born at See also:Heilbronn on the 24th of See also:June 1838. He studied political See also:science, See also:philosophy and See also:history at the universityof See also:Tubingen from 1857 to 1861, when he obtained an See also:appointment at the See also:Wurttemberg Statistical See also:Department. In 1864 Schmoller became extraordinary—and in the following See also:year, See also:ordinary—See also:professor of political See also:economy and science at See also:Halle, was transferred in a like capacity to Strasburg in 1872 and finally in 1882 to See also:Berlin. In 1884 he was admitted a member of the Prussian Staatsrath, in 1887 a member of the Prussian See also:Academy of Sciences, and in 1899 was called to the Prussian Herrenhaus (Upper Chamber) as representative of the university of Berlin. Schmoller is famous for his researches in the See also:field of the history of political economy and is one of the founders of the Verein See also:fur Social Politik (Social Political Society). Among his numerous scientific See also:works must be specially mentioned: Der franzosiche Handelsvertrag and See also:seine Gegner (1862); Zur Geschichte See also:des deutschen Kleingewerbes See also:im 'glen Jahrhundert (1869) ; Uber einige Grundfragen des Rechts und der Volkswirtschaft (1875). In See also:late years Schmoller concentrated his See also:attention more upon the history of Prussian See also:administration, and besides editing the Jahrbuch fur preussische Geschichte und Landeskunde, published the result of his labours in this department in the Umrisse und Untersuchungen zur Verfassungs-, Verwaltungs- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, besonders des preussischen Striates, im I7ten und'8ten Jahrhundert (1898). For an estimate of` Schmoller's See also:work cf. Stampfer, Gustav Schmoller (1901).

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