August Sartorius von Waltershausen

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August Sartorius von Waltershausen (born May 23, 1852 in Göttingen , † July 31, 1938 ) was a German economist .

life and work

August Sartorius grew up in Göttingen in an academic environment. His grandfather Georg Friedrich Sartorius von Waltershausen (1765-1828) was the first time the work Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith translated. August Sartorius studied law and economics in Göttingen from 1880 to 1885. During this time he also made numerous trips to southern France, Tangier and the Canary Islands . From 1871 to 1879 he went on a research trip through the USA (1871-18). In 1881 he married Lotty von Kapp-Herr. In 1885 he was appointed full professor at the Political Science Faculty of the University of Zurich , where he stayed until 1888. During this time he taught economics, taxation and finance. One reason for his short stay in Zurich may have been the integration problems of German professors. A little disappointed, he left Zurich to take a position as full professor at the University of Strasbourg in 1888 . From 1913 to 1914 he was rector of the University of Strasbourg. After the First World War he had to leave Strasbourg and return to Germany. He died in Germany in 1938.

Many of his works deal with the world economy and with the United States of America . His interest in the United States can also be seen in his diaries from 1880 to 1881.

Works (selection)

  • The Labor Constitution of the English Colonies in North America, Strasbourg 1894 ZBZOnline
  • The world economy and the state-regulated transport economies, Leipzig 1926 ZBZOnline
  • The transformation of the interstate economy: a historical review, 1914–1932, Jena 1935 ZBZOnline
  • The future of Germanness in the United States of America: Lecture given in the Göttingen section of the German Colonial Association on December 1st. 1884, Berlin 1885 ZBZOnline
  • German economic history 1815-1914, Jena 1923 ZBZOnline
  • Timeline for economic history, Halberstadt 1927 BZOnline
  • The emergence of the world economy: history of international economic life from the last quarter of the eighteenth century to 1914, Jena 1931 ZBZOnline
  • Modern socialism in the United States of America, Berlin 1890 ZBZOnline
  • Germany and the trade policy of the United States of America, Berlin 1898 ZBZOnline
  • The Germanization of the Rhaeto-Romanic in Switzerland: Economic and National Political Studies, Stuttgart 1900 ZBZOnline
  • Le réforme des impôts directs en Alsace-Lorraine, Paris 1904 ZBZOnline
  • The North American unions under the influence of the advancing production technology, Berlin 1886 ZBZOnline

literature

  • Woitek, U. (2016), short biographies of economics professors, University of Zurich
  • Clavuot, G. (2013), Oekonomen in Zürich, 1833–1933 - August Sartorius von Waltershausen (1852–1938) pp. 3–8
  • Course catalog Political Science Faculty of the University of Zurich 1885–1887 UZV 962 No. 31
personal data
SURNAME Waltershausen, August Sartorius von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1938