Alphons Thun

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Peter Martin Alphons Thun (born September 15 . Jul / 27. September  1853 greg. In Tartu ; † 23. September 1885 in Strasbourg ) was an economic historian and professor of economics at the universities of Basel and Strasbourg .

Life

Alphons Thun was the son of Max Thun, merchant and councilor in Dorpat; and Virginie born of will; his wife was called Clara Kiefer. From 1872 to 1876 he studied economics at the university in his hometown . He then went to Berlin and Strasbourg for further studies. In 1880 his dissertation on the commercial forms of business in Solingen and Remscheid was published in Dorpat . In the same year he came to Berlin as a private lecturer . From 1881 he was professor of economics in Basel and from 1883 in Freiburg im Breisgau , where he died of an illness two years later.

Services

In terms of the history of science, Thun can be classified as a Catholic Socialism . He names Ernst Engel , one of the “ great organizers of official statistics in Germany, as a teacher and mentor . “As well as Georg Friedrich Knapp and Gustav Schmoller . Thun tried by a strictly scientific treatment of social problems such. B. the "workers question" to draw the attention of the political forces to this and to cause a solution in his sense.

Fonts

  • Industry on the Lower Rhine. In: Political and social science research. Volume 2, Issue 2–3, Leipzig 1879.
  • Contributions to the teaching of commercial forms of operation. Solingen and Remscheid industry. Dissertation, Dorpat 1880.
  • Agriculture and trade in Central Russia since the abolition of serfdom. In: Political and social science research. Volume 3, Leipzig 1880/81.
  • History of the revolutionary movement in Russia. Leipzig 1883 (new edition in two volumes: bahoe books, Vienna 2015).
  • The associations and foundations of the Canton of Baselstadt in 1881. Basel 1883.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The information on Thun's biography comes from: Wilhelm Lenz: Deutschbaltisches Biographisches Lexikon 1710–1960, unless otherwise noted . Cologne 1970.
  2. ^ Obituary for A. Thun. In: The Academy. Volume 28, 1885, p. 273.
  3. ^ Ernst Meier:  Engel, Christian Lorenz Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 500 f. ( Digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Thun, Alphons
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thun, Peter Martin Alphons (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic economist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1885
Place of death Strasbourg