Karl Rathgen

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Karl Rathgen around 1900

Karl Rathgen (born December 6, 1856 in Weimar , † November 6, 1921 in Hamburg ) was a German economist and founding rector of the University of Hamburg .

Life

Karl Rathgen was the youngest son of the lawyer and Minister of State Bernhard Rathgen and his wife Cornelia Rathgen geb. Niebuhr. After studying in Strasbourg , Halle , Leipzig and Berlin he put 1880 in Naumburg the state examination and was in the same year in Strasbourg with a thesis on the development of markets in Germany Dr. rer. pole. PhD.

From 1882 to 1890 he taught public law , statistics and administrative science at the Imperial University of Tokyo and was also an advisor to the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture and Trade.

Gravestone "Karl Rathgen the first rector of Hamburg University",
Ohlsdorf cemetery

After his habilitation in Berlin in 1892 (subject: Japan's national economy and state budget), Rathgen became an associate professor at the University of Marburg in 1893 and a full professor in 1895 and represented Max Weber's chair in Heidelberg from 1900 to 1907 . In 1907 he was appointed to the newly founded colonial institute in Hamburg and, after its conversion into a university in 1919, took on the chair of economics, colonial politics and finance in addition to the rectorate .

From 1913 to 1914 Rathgen taught as an exchange professor at Columbia University in New York .

He emerged mainly with publications about Japan and had a great influence on the German image of Japanese economic development.

Karl Rathgen was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg in grid square A 15 (east of the northern pond ).

Fonts

  • Japan's national economy and state budget (= State and social science research. H. 45 = Bd. 10, H. 4, ZDB -ID 550024-2 ). Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, ( digitized ).
  • The Japanese and their economic development (= From nature and the spiritual world. Volume 72, ZDB -ID 516263-4 ). Teubner, Leipzig 1905, ( digitized 1905 ; later under the title: The Japanese in the world economy. Ibid 1911, digitized 1911 ).
  • State and culture of the Japanese (= monographs on world history. 27, ZDB -ID 500713-6 ). Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld et al. 1907.
  • Civil servants and colonial education. Speech given at the opening ceremony of the Hamburg Colonial Institute on October 20, 1908. In addition to the other speeches given at the opening ceremony of the Colonial Institute. Voss, Hamburg 1908.

Web links

Commons : Karl Rathgen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Celebrity Graves