Julius Platter

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Julius Platter, photograph by Johannes Meiner, around 1909

Julius Platter (born December 27, 1844 in Castelrotto , † November 23, 1923 in Zurich ) was a South Tyrolean economist .

Life

Platter was the son of a doctor and completed his studies in Innsbruck , Vienna and Munich . He received his doctorate iuris in Innsbruck in 1873 . He then held an extraordinary professorship for statistics in Chernivtsi , Bukovina Province , which at that time belonged to the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy and is now in western Ukraine . From 1879 to 1884 he held a full professorship at the University of Zurich . From 1882 to 1884 he was dean of the political science faculty at the University of Zurich. In 1884, Platter was appointed professor of economics at the Zurich Polytechnic (now ETH Zurich), where he worked until 1921. Julius Platter is considered a representative of classical economics. His work deals with a. with issues of social policy . One of his main works is the textbook “Grundlehren der Nationalökonomie” (1903), which was often cited, especially during his decades of teaching at the Polytechnic.

Works (selection)

  • Carl Marx and Malthus, s. l. 1877 ZBZOnline
  • The obligations of possession (speech), in: Deutsche Zeit- und Streitfragen; Vol. 11 (1883), H. 176 ZBZOnline
  • Gustav Cohn's "ethical" economics, Vienna 1886 ZBZOnline
  • Freedom and equality. Lecture given in the Rathaussaale in Zurich on November 18, 1886, Vienna 1887 ZBZOnline
  • Cooperative self-help. Lecture given on the Association Day of the Eastern Swiss Agricultural Cooperatives in Brugg, May 20, 1894, Zurich 1894. ZBZOnline
  • Critical contributions to the knowledge of our social conditions and theories, Basel 1894 ZBZOnline

literature

  • Woitek, U. Brief biographies of economics professors, University of Zurich 2016.
  • Education Council of the Canton of Zurich (ed.). The University of Zurich 1833–1933. Celebration of the century. Zurich 1938, Verlag der Erziehungsdirektion, p. 658 ff.
  • Müller, M. Economists in Zurich. Economics in the short 19th century at the University of Zurich from 1833-1913. Zurich 2015, p. 71 ff.
  • Oberkofler, G. Platter, Julius (1844–1923), economist. In: Institute for Modern and Contemporary History Research (Ed.), Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon, Vol. 8, 1980, p. 118.

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personal data
SURNAME Platter, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Political economist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Castelrotto
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1923
Place of death Zurich