Andreas Voigt (economist)

Andreas Heinrich Voigt (born April 18, 1860 in Flensburg ; † December 6, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main ) was originally a mathematician , later a professor of economics and social sciences .

Life

His dissertation at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg on the algebra of logic with Ernst Schröder was one of the first in this area of ​​scientific logic. After a brief activity as a grammar school teacher and lecturer for elementary mathematics at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , his pronounced social science and socio-political interest led him to economics , although he continued his mathematical studies during his research and teaching activities in the new subject. Above all, the border areas between mathematics, logic and philosophy preoccupied him throughout his research life. The scientific importance of his logical work for the history of logic research, especially in connection with his controversy with Edmund Husserl , was only recognized late .

From 1896 to 1903 he was managing director of the Institute for the Common Good in Frankfurt am Main, which Wilhelm Merton had established, and was involved in the founding of the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences and the University of Frankfurt . When the academy was founded in 1901, he became a lecturer in economics and held the first chair for political economics together with Ludwig Pohle and Paul Arndt at the new Frankfurt University from 1914 until his retirement in 1925.

Fonts

• The resolution of systems of judgment, the problem of elimination and the criteria of contradiction in the algebra of logic . Dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau 1890
• Number and Measure in Economics: A Critical Examination of Mathematical Method and Mathematical Price Theory. In: Journal for the entire political science . 1893, pp. 577-609
• The Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences in Frankfurt am Main. A memorandum from the managing director of the Institute for Common Good . Frankfurt am Main 1899
• Small house and tenement. An investigation of the intensity of the dwelling from the economic and hygienic point of view (together with the architect Paul Geldner). Berlin 1905
• The social utopias . Leipzig 1906
• Theory of series of numbers and series equations . Leipzig 1911 ( digitized version )
• The economically peaceful manifesto. Guidelines for a contemporary social and economic policy . Stuttgart 1921

literature

• Adelheid Hamacher-Hermes: content or scope logic? The controversy between E. Husserl and AH Voigt . Freiburg / Munich 1994 (including a brief biographical outline, relating to the time before 1889).
• Jarmo Pulkkinen: Thought and Logic. The Debates between German-Speaking Philosophers and Symbolic Logicians at the Turn of the 20th Century . Frankfurt 2005 (European Studies on the History of Ideas and Science, Volume 12).
• Christian E. Weber and Thorsten Schmidt: On the Origins of Ordinal Utility: Andreas Voigt and the Mathematicians . In: History of Political Economy, vol. 2008, issue 40, pp. 481-510.
• Thorsten Schmidt and Christian E. Weber: Andreas Heinrich Voigt and the Hicks-Allen Revolution in Consumer Theory . In: Economic Inquiry, Vol. 50, Issue 3, pp. 625-640. 2011
• Rüdiger Graf: The mentalization of nowhere and the transformation of society. The theoretical utopia discourse in Germany 1900–1933 . In: Wolfgang Hardtwig (Ed.): Utopia and political rule in Europe in the interwar period . Munich 2003 (Writings of the Historisches Kolleg, Colloquia 56; on Voigt's contribution to the concept of utopia ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Voigt in the catalog of the German National Library