Hermann Abeken

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Hermann Abeken (born June 27, 1820 in Osnabrück , † April 27, 1854 in Hanover ) was a German statistician and publicist.

Life

Hermann Abeken, the third son of the philologist and teacher Bernhard Rudolf Abeken , began an apprenticeship as a businessman in New York after finishing school, but broke it off because of a breast problem. There he made the acquaintance of Count Görz-Schliz, a friend of his brother Friedrich Abeken, who died early . They studied law together at the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin and traveled to the United States in 1844 and 1845 . It was here that Abeken was encouraged to do his statistical and human rights work on slavery, which he began in his hometown of Osnabrück in the autumn of 1846 and later continued in Bonn and Berlin . He also advocated a constitutional form of government but opposed the 1848 revolution .

In the summer of 1848 he was appointed chairman of the ministry's statistical office by the Hanoverian minister Johann Carl Bertram Stüve . In this position he published the three-part booklet series on statistics of the Kingdom of Hanover (1850–53). He also wrote articles for daily newspapers. He was unable to complete a work on developments in the Orient; it appeared posthumously in 1856 under the title The Entry of Turkey into European Politics of the 18th Century , edited by Karl Stüve.

Fonts (selection)

  • American Negro Slavery and Emancipation , Berlin 1847.
  • The Republic in North America and the plan for a democratic-republican constitution for Germany , Berlin 1848.
  • 1789. 1848. Mirabeau on the royal veto , Berlin 1848.
  • On the statistics of the Kingdom of Hanover , Hanover 1850–53.
  • Turkey's entry into European politics in the 18th century , Hanover 1856.

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personal data
SURNAME Abeken, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German statistician and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1854
Place of death Hanover