Carl Grünberg

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Carl Grünberg (born February 10, 1861 in Focșani , Romania ; died February 2, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German-Austrian constitutional law scholar and sociologist. He was the founding director of the Institute for Social Research and founder of the Archive for the History of Socialism and the Labor Movement , published from 1911 to 1930 . He was an avowed Marxist and is considered the "father of Austromarxism ".

Life

Grünberg comes from a German-Jewish family in Bessarabia . He graduated from high school in the Austro-Hungarian Czernowitz . After studying in Strasbourg with Georg Friedrich Knapp and Gustav Schmoller , he was in 1890 in Vienna Dr. iur. PhD . There he studied with Carl Menger and Lorenz von Stein . First he worked as a practical lawyer.

In 1893 he founded the magazine for social and economic history together with Stephan Bauer , Ludo Moritz Hartmann and Emil Szanto . From 1905 he published the series “Studies on Social, Economic and Administrative History”, which ended in 1925 after thirteen publications. In 1894 he qualified as a professor for political economy at the University of Vienna and taught as a private lecturer at this university. In 1912 he received against massive opposition the chair of economic history, in 1919 the for economics . His students included Max Adler , Friedrich Adler , Otto Bauer , Rudolf Hilferding and Karl Renner .

In 1923, Grünberg was appointed to the chair for economic political sciences, founded by the Society for Social Research. In 1924 he was appointed the first director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt, founded on February 3, 1923, on the farm of the founder, Felix Weil . Under Grünberg's leadership, the institute had close ties to the Marx-Engels-Institute in Moscow. Hermann Korte describes its orientation as "orthodox-Marxist". Grünberg brought his archive for the history of socialism and the labor movement into the new institute. In January 1928 Grünberg suffered a severe stroke that made him unable to work and in 1929 resigned from the management of the institute, his successor being Max Horkheimer .

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Goethe University , a stumbling block was laid in Gutleutstraße 85 on October 17, 2014 in his memory .

Fonts (selection)

  • 1894: The liberation of the peasants and the abolition of the landlord peasant situation in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia . 2 vols. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig ( digitized [accessed on April 6, 2016]).
  • 1897: socialism, communism, anarchism . Gustav Fischer, Jena ( digitized version [accessed April 6, 2016]).
  • 1901: Studies on Austrian agricultural history . Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig ( digitized [accessed April 6, 2016]).
  • 1921: The London Communist Magazine and other documents from 1847/1848. With an introductory treatise on “The History of the Origin of the Communist Manifesto” and notes (= Major Works of Socialism and Social Policy , Volume V). New episode, CL Hirschfeld, Leipzig.
  • 1924: beginnings of critical theory; Speech held at the inauguration of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt a. M.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Hermann Korte: Introduction to the History of Sociology , VS-Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-531-14774-9 , p. 137 f.
  2. ↑ Harald Martin Binder: Relevant scientific currents at the time of Wilhelm Ostwald in Wilhelm Oswald's energetics , master's thesis University of Stuttgart
  3. ^ Grünberg Karl, legal and economic historian. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 88.
  4. ↑ Detlev Garz: Biographische Erziehungswissenschaften , VS-Verlag 2000, ISBN 3-8100-2955-6 , p. 39
  5. ^ Felix Weil, Carl-Erich Vollgraf: Successful cooperation: The Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and the Moscow Marx-Engels Institute: (1924–1928) , Argument-Verlag Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-88619-684-4
  6. ^ History of the Institute for Social Research - The Pre-War Period in Frankfurt ( Memento from May 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Grünberg, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian constitutional lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Focșani
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1940
Place of death Frankfurt am Main