Robert Wuttke
Robert Wuttke (born June 9, 1859 in Reudnitz near Leipzig , † July 18, 1914 in Dresden ) was a Saxon economist and ethnologist. His father was the history professor Heinrich Wuttke , his mother the writer Emma Wuttke-Biller .
Life
Because he suffered from a serious hereditary disease, he received home schooling from both his father and a private tutor. His father let him expatriate and take Swiss citizenship. He did his Abitur in Switzerland. When he enrolled at the University of Leipzig, he indicated his Swiss citizenship. He studied economics, law and history in Leipzig, Göttingen , Berlin and Strasbourg from 1882 to 1886 and obtained his doctorate in 1886. jur. in Strasbourg. In 1889 he obtained his doctorate in Heidelberg. phil.
From 1895 to 1913 he was a lecturer in economics at the Gehe Foundation in Dresden. In 1900 he took on a teaching position at the Tharandt Forest Academy , and from 1902 a lectureship. A year later he took over a full professorship for economics (economics and statistics) at the Technical University of Dresden as the successor to Viktor Böhmert .
Wuttke died in 1914 and was buried in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden.
research
The starting point for his larger scientific work lay in the history of his closer homeland, Saxony. This, in turn, has certain parallels to his father, whose starting point for his major scientific work was his home town of Silesia. He carried out essential research in the field of the Saxon dialect, on the socio-economic conditions of the population under the influence of increasing mobility. In general, he made an outstanding contribution to researching everyday life in Saxony. His main work is his Saxon Folklore, first published in Dresden in 1900 . Furthermore, he was concerned with the issue of gainful employment for women.
Honors
A street is named after him in the Loschwitz district of Dresden .
literature
- Brigitte Emmrich: An early socio-historical look at folk life: the economist Robert Wuttke (1859–1914) and his “Saxon Folklore” . In: Yearbook for Folklore . Volume NF26, 2003, pp. 101-120.
Web links
- Brigitte Emmrich: Wuttke, Robert . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wuttke, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saxon economist and ethnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reudnitz near Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1914 |
| Place of death | Dresden |