Eduard Baumstark

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Eduard Baumstark.

Eduard Baumstark (also: Edward Baumstark; born March 28, 1807 in Sinzheim , Baden , † April 8, 1889 in Greifswald , Western Pomerania ) was a German lawyer , economist (camera operator), politician and university professor .

Life

Eduard Baumstark was the son of the teacher Johann Michael Baumstark and his wife Scholastika Vogel. The later philologist Anton Baumstark sen. (1800–1878) was his brother, the politician and writer Reinhold Baumstark (1831–1900) his nephew.

At the age of 18, Baumstark finished his schooling at the Lyceum in Rastatt in 1825 and in the same year began to study law and camera science at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He was able to successfully complete this study in 1828 with his dissertation The Duke of Sully Merits in French Finance . During his studies he joined the old Heidelberg fraternity in 1825 .

In the following year the University of Heidelberg entrusted Baumstark with a teaching position as a private lecturer in camera sciences . At this time he began - on the side, so to speak - to translate the works of the economist David Ricardo and thus contributed significantly to their dissemination in Germany.

In 1838 Baumstark accepted a position at the University of Greifswald and was appointed associate professor there. Four years later he was appointed full professor. In 1843 he was entrusted with the management of the Royal State and Agricultural Academy Eldena near Greifswald. He held this office until it closed in 1876.

In the course of the events of the March Revolution , Baumstark became politically active as he was elected as a member of the Prussian National Assembly . As a member of the moderately liberal camp, Baumstark became a member of the First Chamber of the Prussian Landtag in 1849 and vehemently opposed Otto Theodor von Manteuffel's conservative policies between 1850 and 1852 .

In 1850 Baumstark was elected to the state house of the Erfurt Union Parliament . In 1867 he was a member of the constituency Stralsund 2 ( Grimmen - Greifswald ) in the Reichstag of the North German Confederation . In the Reichstag he joined the faction of the old liberal center. From 1859 until his death he represented the University of Greifswald in the Prussian mansion .

In that year Baumstark was also elected to the State Economics College and soon became its most important member. At the age of 49 he was honored with the title of Privy Councilor . As such, Baumstark was appointed to the Central Statistical Commission in 1876 .

Since his student days in Heidelberg Baumstark was friends with the outstanding civil law professor and part-time musicologist Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut (1772-1840). He supported Baumstark in his musical work. Baumstark published a number of folk songs and contemporary critics always found words of praise for the musicological essays.

The economist Eduard Baumstark died on April 8, 1889 at the age of 82. Baumstark donated his considerable private library and all of his handwritten estate to the University of Greifswald, where it was burned in the Second World War .

Works (selection)

  • The Duke of Sully's contribution to French finance . Catholic Citizens' Hospital, Mannheim 1828.
  • Introduction to the scientific study of agriculture. Berlin 1858.
  • Cameralistic encyclopedia. Manual of the camera sciences and their literature for legal and administrative officials, estates, community councils and cameral candidates . Karl Groos, Heidelberg / Leipzig 1835. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  • The Royal State and Agricultural Academy Eldena . Berlin 1870.
  • Political experiments on state credit etc. Heidelberg 1833.
  • On the income tax question . Greifswald 1850. (Separate print from the yearbooks of the State and Agricultural Academy Eldena, which he founded in 1848 )
Translations
  • David Ricardo : Basic Laws of Economics and Taxation . Engelmann, Leipzig 1837, OCLC 159872355 .
    • Economical explanations especially about David Ricardo's system. Engelmann, Leipzig 1838, OCLC 159872357 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 62.
  2. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 61, short biography p. 374.
  3. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe : The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives . 2nd Edition. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 54; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Statistics of the elections for the constituent and North German Reichstag, for the customs parliament, as well as for the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag . Louis Gerschel publishing house, Berlin 1883, p. 34.

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predecessor Office successor
Albert Hoefer Rector of the University of Greifswald
1861 		Karl August Traugott Vogt
Alwill Baier Rector of the University of Greifswald
1865 		Ernst Immanuel Bekker
personal data
SURNAME Strong as a tree, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strong as a tree, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, agricultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Sinzheim
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1889
Place of death Greifswald