August Oncken
August Oncken (born April 10, 1844 in Heidelberg , † July 10, 1911 in Schwerin ) was a German economist .
Life
Oncken was brother Wilhelm Oncken . He studied in Munich , Heidelberg and Berlin , lived as a landowner in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg from 1865–71 and completed his habilitation in 1872 at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. In 1870/71 he became a private lecturer in economics and statistics at the Kgl. Polytechnic School in Stuttgart (today University of Stuttgart) admitted, in 1877 he was appointed professor of economics at the Polytechnic in Aachen , from 1878 to the University of Bern . He was a member of the Heidelberg Masonic Lodge Ruprecht zu den five Rosen .
Appreciation
Onckenstrasse, which runs from Treptow to Neukölln in Berlin , was named after August Oncken on May 17, 1930.
Works
- Study on the concept of statistics (Leipz. 1870)
- The Vienna World Exhibition 1873 (Berl. 1873) ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
- Adam Smith in Cultural History (Vienna 1874)
- Austrian agrarians (that. 1877)
- Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant (Leipz. 1877, Vol. 1)
- The Elderly Mirabeau and the Economic Society in Bern (Bern 1886)
- The maxim Laissez faire et laissez aller (that. 1887).
literature
- Egon Tuchtfeldt: Oncken, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 537 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about August Oncken in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oncken, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1911 |
| Place of death | Schwerin |