Carl Johannes Fuchs
Carl Johannes Fuchs (born August 7, 1865 in Nuremberg , † December 4, 1934 in Tübingen ) was a German economist.
family
Carl Johannes Fuchs came from a long-established Nuremberg family. He was born on August 7, 1865 in Nuremberg and grew up as an only child in the Pellerhaus on Nuremberg's Egidienberg, which his family had owned since 1838. His father was the Nuremberg wholesale merchant and honorary magistrate Johannes Karl Fuchs, who lived with Louise Maria Friederike, geb. Waydeln, who also came from a Nuremberg merchant family. His great-grandfather was pastor of St. Egidien in Nuremberg.
Fuchs had been married to Bertha Eimbcke (1863-1946) from Hamburg since 1895. The marriage remained childless.
Career
Fuchs attended the Melanchthon grammar school in Nuremberg, where he graduated from high school in 1883. In 1882 the family sold the Pellerhaus to the furniture manufacturer Georg Eysser, from whose heirs the city of Nuremberg acquired it in 1929.
Fuchs studied philosophy and law and political science at the University of Munich from the winter semester of 1883/84 . From 1886 he continued his studies in Strasbourg . After studying in England and at the University of Berlin, he completed his habilitation in Strasbourg in 1889 and became a private lecturer there in 1890. In 1891 he was associate professor and full professor in Greifswald from 1893–1897 , 1897–1908 as successor to Max Weber professor of economics at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , 1908–1933 full professor of economics and finance in Tübingen. In 1914/15 he was rector of the University of Tübingen .
Foreign trips took him to the USA and Canada in 1893. His plan to tour East Asia was prevented by the First World War . In 1933 he retired in Tübingen, where he died on December 4, 1934.
Fuchs was the initiator of the so-called Fuchs Collection for East Asian works of art.
literature
- Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , pp. 55 f. ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carl Johannes Fuchs on LEO-BW.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fuchs, Carl Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fuchs, Carl J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1934 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |