Johann Friedrich Gottfried Eiselen

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Johann Friedrich Gottfried Eiselen (born September 21, 1785 in Rothenburg a. S. , † October 3, 1865 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German economist .

Life

The eldest son of Johann Christoph Eiselen had moved to Berlin with his parents in 1788 , as the father was transferred there at that time. In Berlin he moved to the Friedrichwerdersche Gymnasium and began studying theology and philosophical sciences at the University of Erlangen in 1805 . After his studies he worked as a high school teacher in Bayreuth , returned to Erlangen, where he received his doctorate in philosophy on natural law in 1809 and gave mathematics lectures.

Because of the Bavarian occupation of Erlangen, he was forced to return to Berlin, where he initially worked as a private tutor to a nobleman. The German war of liberation tore him from his quiet activity and he joined the Lützow Freikorps as a volunteer hunter , whose history he later wrote down based on his own and other people's records. Awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class, he returned to Berlin to do peaceful work after the war.

On June 3, 1815, he completed his habilitation at Berlin University as a private lecturer in history and turned to studies in economics. In 1818 he had started the lectures on this topic and in the same year wrote the work On the basics of political science or the free national economy and the related art of governance . On August 14, 1820, he was appointed associate professor, with the cabinet order of February 26, 1821 he was appointed full professor of camera studies at the University of Breslau and on October 18, 1828 he was active in the same function at the University of Halle .

In Halle he has been active as a city councilor since 1832, became Vice-Rector of the Alma Mater in 1835/36, 1844/45, 1846/47, 1851/53 and was the university representative in the Prussian government from 1862. In addition, he received the Order of the Red Eagle IV class from Friedrich Wilhelm IV. In 1844 , the same in III. Received class with ribbon and was appointed a secret councilor in 1853. After he died, his funeral took place on October 16 on the Stadtgottesacker with the participation of the university, the authorities and his companions . The Hallische Tageblatt dedicated a detailed obituary to him the following day.

Eiselen was in his time, a widely respected person in his field. He had published the first textbook in the field of economics. Today his systematic representations, which were based on Adam Smith at the time , are less popular.

Publications (selection)

  • On the main features of the state economy or the free national economy and the related art of governance , Berlin 1818
  • Handbook of the System of Political Sciences , Breslau 1828 ( online )
  • Textbook of public finance. 1837
  • History of the Lützow Freikorps , 2nd edition, Halle 1841
  • The doctrine of the national economy in its general conditions and in its special development or Scientific representation of the civil society as an economic system - A manual for the friends of this science and for statesmen. Hall 1843
  • Prussia and the unification efforts in Germany. Hall, 1850
  • The Prussian state - presentation of its historical development and its present natural social and political conditions. Berlin 1862

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ferdinand Ascherson : Documents on the history of the jubilee ceremony of the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin in October 1860, together with a list of the university's teachers from its foundation to October 15, 1862 . Verlag J. Guttentag, Berlin 1863, p. 244 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Eiselen, Johann Friedrich Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eiselen, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1865
Place of death Hall