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Emanuel reader

Emanuel Leser (born September 26, 1849 in Mainz , † May 20, 1914 in Heidelberg ) was a German economist and economic historian .

Live and act

He was born in Mainz as the son of the Jewish businessman Leo Leser, attended grammar school there and, from 1867, the universities of Heidelberg and Göttingen . Readers devoted himself primarily to historical studies, especially in Göttingen, as a student of Georg Waitz . In 1870 he received his doctorate in Göttingen on a historical subject, in 1874 he completed his habilitation in Heidelberg in the subject of economics, in 1881 he became an associate professor and from 1894 he held a chair.

Since 1875 Emanuel Leser was married to Ida Rohr († 1904), daughter of the manor owner Adam Rohr from Langguhle , Rawitsch District , Posen Province . He died in Heidelberg in 1914.

His private library is preserved in the Heidelberg University Library .

Works

  • Necker's second ministry, dissertation, 1871
  • The concept of wealth in Adam Smith. A national and economic study , 1874
  • An accise dispute in England , 1879
  • The mortgage lenders and their annual accounts , 1879
  • From the life story of Adam Smith. Robert Malthus as the discoverer of modern basic rent theory (= studies on the history of economics; 1st issue), 1881
  • The critical inheritance taxation , 1881
  • A memorandum on the English wool industry from the time of Jacob I , 1885
  • On the history of premium deals , 1896
  • The Grand Ducal Badische Ruprecht-Carls-Universität zu Heidelberg , in: Wilhelm Lexis (Hrsg.): The Universities in the German Empire, 1904
  • Article: Free Trade School , Mercantile System , Adam Smith , in: Concise Dictionary of Political Science, 1. – 3. Edition

literature

  • Reader, Emanuel. In: Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Vol. 4, Orient, Chernivtsi 1930.
  • Walter Braeuer : Complete, chronologically ordered list of the writings of the economist Dr. Emanuel Leser 1849–1914, Professor of Political Science at Heidelberg University. Marburg 1979.
  • Walter Braeuer: Short treatise on the Mainz-born university professor Emanuel Leser (1849–1914), who later taught in Heidelberg. Self-published by Braeuer, Reinbek 1981.
  • Marga Coing: The library of the Heidelberg economist Emanuel Leser (1849–1914) and its incorporation into the Heidelberg University Library. In: Bibliothek und Wissenschaft , Volume 11, 1977, pp. 72-117.
  • Reader, Emanuel. In: Dagmar Drüll (Ed.): Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon, 1803–1932. Springer-Verlag, Berlin et al. 1986, ISBN 3-540-15856-1 , p. 162.

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personal data
SURNAME Reader, Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and science historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1914
Place of death Heidelberg