Gunnar Mickwitz
Gunnar Mickwitz (born October 19, 1906 in Åbo ; † February 18, 1940 on the Karelian Isthmus ) was a Finnish economic and social historian.
Live and act
Mickwitz came from an old Baltic family on his father's side and the Schybergson family on his mother's side . He studied history and classical philology at the University of Helsinki . In 1932 he received his doctorate with the text Money and Economy in the Roman Empire of the fourth century AD .
He researched and published on ancient and medieval economic history . After his dissertation, a work appeared in 1934 on the systems of Roman silver money in the 4th century AD. He dealt with late medieval economic history as part of his work on Hanseatic history. In 1938, for example, his work From Revaler Handelsbuch was published. On the technology of the Baltic Sea trade in the 1st half of the 16th century .
It is his merit in the field of Hanseatic history to be the first to recognize and describe the so-called “mutual trade”. In this type of company, Hanseatic merchants cooperated and sent each other goods, which they sold under their own name for the benefit of the partner, without any refutation or a broadcast deal.
Mickwitz served in the Finnish armed forces during World War II . Shortly before the end of the winter war against Soviet Russia, he fell as an ensign in the reserve on February 18, 1940 on the Karelian Isthmus.
literature
- Hanseatic history sheets . Vol. 64 (1940), p. 219.
- Johannes Sundwall : Gunnar Mickwitz † . In: Gnomon . Vol. 16 (1940), H. 9, p. 432 ( JSTOR 27676640 at JSTOR ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Gunnar Mickwitz in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mickwitz, Gunnar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish economic and social historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Åbo |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 1940 |
| Place of death | Karelian isthmus |