Johann Friedrich von Pfeiffer

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Johann Friedrich von Pfeiffer (born October 7, 1717 in Berlin ; † March 5, 1787 in Mainz ) was one of the most important German cameraists .

Live and act

Johann Friedrich von Pfeiffer was born in Berlin as the son of a royal councilor. He was equally successful as a practitioner of regional development and as a theoretician of absolutist economics . In Prussian service until 1750 he established 105 villages as part of the Frederician settlement policy in the Mark Brandenburg . In 1750 he left Prussia after the unjustified accusation of embezzlement, went to Silesia, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, Saxony, Austria, Bavaria, Switzerland and several smaller German states. From 1769 he worked in Hohenlohe , and from 1778 to 1781 in Hanau on the improvement of agriculture and manufacturing .

He wrote numerous works on a wide range of subjects, such as forestry and finance, silkworm breeding , coking of coal and means to improve the happiness of Germany . From 1781 to 1784 his six-volume work was published, corrections to famous state, financial, police, cameral, commercial and economic writings of this century .

In 1782 he was appointed professor for the newly established subject of cameralistics as part of the reform of the University of Mainz . It provided for a four-year course of study that covered subjects such as national history, natural law, applied mathematics, law, statistics, chemistry, agriculture and forestry, finance, trade and accounting. The goal was not just to strengthen state power through improved economic power. He wanted to combine the advocacy of the legal principle and an international policy that was ready to be understood with the outlawing of offensive wars.

Publications

  • The Teutsche Seiden-Bau promoted to print out of love for truth , Berlin 1748
  • Discovered, generally useful improver of coal and peat; in addition to the type of use of all products to be drawn from it; as an addition to the history of coal and peat , Mannheim 1777
  • History of coal and peat , Mannheim 1775
  • Mixed suggestions for improvement and free thoughts on various subjects relating to the state of health, population and state economy of the Germans , Frankfurt am Main, 1778
  • Teaching term for all economic and cameral sciences , Mannheim 1778
  • Natural general police science arising from the ultimate purpose of society , Frankfurt am Main 1779
  • The Manufacturen und Fabricken of Germany: considered according to their current situation and accompanied with general suggestions for their most favorable means of improvement , Frankfurt am Main 1780
  • The antiphysiocrat, or laborious investigation of the so-called physiocratic system, by virtue of which a general freedom and a single condition on the pure yield of the land should make the happiness of all states , Frankfurt am Main 1780
  • Floor plan of forest science, for the use of directing forest and camera operators , Mannheim 1781
  • Outline of public finance with an appendix on the impracticability of the physiocratic system , Frankfurt am Main 1781
  • Outline of the state economy for the instruction and warning of prospective economists, designed by the author of the concept of teaching of all economic and cameral sciences . Frankfurt am Main 1782 (Reprint: Topos Verlag, Vaduz 1977)
  • General sentences about the happiness of the states, with which he invites to his public lectures on the camera sciences for the coming winter half year Johann Friedrich von Pfeiffer , Maynz 1782 ( digitized version )
  • The principles of universal camera science or its 4 most important pillars, namely the art of state governance, police science, general state economy and finance. ; in 2 parts; Frankfurt am Main 1783
  • Corrections to famous state, financial, police, Cameral, Commerz and economic writings of this century , 6 volumes, Frankfurt am Main 1781–1784
  • Examination of the most considerable suggestions for improvement to increase the happiness and power of Germany , Frankfurt, Mainz 1786
  • Principles and rules of the state economy , Mainz 1787

literature

Web links

Itemized list

  1. ^ Johann Friedrich von Pfeiffer - regionalgeschichte.net. In: www.alte-uni-mainz.de. Retrieved December 12, 2016 .
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich Pfeiffer. In: www.hetwebsite.net. Retrieved December 12, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Johann Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cinematographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1717
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1787
Place of death Mainz