Adolf Soetbeer
Adolf Soetbeer (born November 23, 1814 in Hamburg , † October 22, 1892 in Göttingen ) was a German economist .
Life
Soetbeer studied philology in Göttingen and Berlin. In Göttingen he was one of the students who accompanied the Göttingen Seven , who had been expelled from the country, to Witzenhausen in Hesse in 1837 . As a result of his writing Des Stader Elbzolls Ursprung, Progress and Inventory, he became librarian of the Commerzbibliothek in 1840 and secretary and consultant of the Commerzdeputation in Hamburg in 1843 . The University of Kiel made him an honorary doctorate in law. In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament . In 1872 he moved to Göttingen, where he was appointed honorary professor and secret councilor. Soetbeer worked diligently for a German coin reform based on the gold standard for many years . He also devoted a great deal of interest to the history of coins, river navigation statistics and trade agreements .
He translated Mills Politische Ökonomie (4th edition, Leipzig 1881, 3 volumes), wrote comments on the German Coin Act and the German Banking Act (Erlangen 1874–76) and also published: Precious metal production and the value relationship between gold and silver since the discovery of America (Gotha 1879 ) and materials for explaining and assessing the economic situation with precious metals and the currency issue (2nd edition, Berlin 1886).
Publications
- The origin, progress and existence of the Stader-Elbzolles . Hamburg 1839 ( digitized in the Google book search).
literature
- Ernst von Halle : Soetbeer, Adolf Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 399-408.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
Web links
- Literature by and about Adolf Soetbeer in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Soetbeer, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1892 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |