Carl Julius Bergius

Carl Julius Bergius (born December 14, 1804 in Berlin ; † October 28, 1871 ibid) was a German political scientist and economic writer.

Bergius came from an old family from Pomerania , one of his ancestors was the court chamber councilor Johann Heinrich Bergius. Bergius was married to Clara Manera, with her he had a son, Heinrich Bergius. The chemist Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949) was his grandson.

At the age of 18 Bergius completed his school years with the Abitur in 1822. In the same year he began a commercial apprenticeship at von Asten's shop . Bergius then began to study camera sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin and completed this course in 1828 with a doctorate . Immediately thereafter, Bergius began his legal clerkship, which he completed in Potsdam .

Bergius continued his career through various provincial administrations in Prussia. As a government councilor, he wrote his first major work on Prussia in terms of constitutional law in 1838 . In 1839 he was transferred to the financial administration in Breslau . There, Bergius was entrusted with a teaching position with a focus on economics and after his habilitation, Bergius worked there as a private lecturer from 1851. Ten years later, with his appointment as ao. Professor of Political Science the high point of his career. As such, Bergius wrote his second major work The Principles of Public Finance with a special reference to Prussia (1865).

Bergius retired into private life around 1868 and died at the age of 66 on October 28, 1871 in Berlin.

Works

Considerations about finances and trades in the Prussian state . Berlin 1830
Prussia in relation to constitutional law . Münster 1838, 2nd edition 1843
About protective tariffs, with special reference to the Prussian state and the Zollverein . Wroclaw 1841
Prussian conditions . Munster 1844
The monetary and banking system in Prussia . Wroclaw 1846
The property tax and the meal and slaughter tax . Wroclaw 1853
The Prussian Trade Law . Leipzig 1857
The principles of finance with a special relationship to Prussia . Berlin 1865, 2nd edition 1871

literature

August Meitzen : Bergius, Karl Julius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 388 f.
Hellmuth Günther (2011). Carl Julius Bergius on public servants. From the Prussian constitutional literature of the Vormärz. Administration: Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 421-442. doi : 10.3790 / verw.44.3.421

Web links

Carl Julius Berger in the Munich digitization center

personal data
SURNAME	Bergius, Carl Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bergius, Karl Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 14, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	October 28, 1871
Place of death	Berlin