Karl August Noback

Karl August Noback (born June 18, 1810 in Kölleda , † February 1, 1870 in Prague ) was a German commercial writer, teacher and businessman.

Life

Karl August Noback was the eldest son of Johann Christian Noback . Trained in his father's college, he later supported him in his teaching post, went to Leipzig as a teacher in 1835 , founded a commercial college in Berlin with his brother Friedrich Eduard in 1843 , lived in Hamburg after it was closed in 1849 and followed a call as secretary in 1851 the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Budweis , in which position he remained until 1859. Since that time he lived in Prague . At the world exhibitions in London in 1851 and Paris in 1855 he acted partly as a juror and partly as an official reporter. He was a co-founder of the first German free trade association in Berlin.

In the introduction to his translation of Frédéric Bastiats Sophismes économiques from 1847, he gave evidence of his moderate free trade principles .

Works

• Description of the administrative district of Erfurt (official work), 1840
• Trading in Compagnie , 1842
• The canvas industry in Germany , 1850
• Trade and trade statistics of the Budweis district , 1853; in collaboration with Friedrich Eduard Noback
• General Encyclopedia for Merchants, continued by Steger , 12th Edition, 1859

literature

• Cesky biograficky archiv a Slovensky biograficky archiv , 434, 391.
• František Ladislav Rieger : Slovník naučný , Praha 1874, p. 61.