Wilhelm Hasbach

Wilhelm Hasbach (born August 25, 1849 in Venauen near Mülheim / Ruhr, † April 30, 1920 in Karlsruhe ) was a German economist. From 1899 to 1920 he held the chair for political science at the University of Kiel .

Career

Hasbach studied at the University of Tuebingen philosophy and history and was there in 1875 with a thesis on "The Platonic idea in Schopenhauer's aesthetics" doctorate . He then worked as a teacher, but from 1879 resumed his studies at the University of Berlin , where he was a student of Adolph Wagner . After two years of study in England, Hasbach received his habilitation from the University of Greifswald in 1883 with the thesis "The English Workers Insurance System " . In 1899 he became professor for political science at the University of Kiel, which he remained until his death. In 1900 he was Hjalmar Schacht's doctoral supervisor .

Hasbach was a member of the German Society for Sociology and had participated in the first two sociologist days (1910 and 1912) of this association.

Fonts (selection)

Studies on Adam Smith and the development of political economy , Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1891

The general philosophical foundations of the political economy founded by François Quesnay and Adam Smith , Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1890
The English farm workers in the last hundred years and the enclosures , Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot 1894
Consumption and production of goods , Jena: G. Fischer, 1906

Modern Democracy: A Political Description , Jena: G. Fischer, 1912
The Parliamentary Cabinet Government: A Political Description , Stuttgart; Berlin: Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1919

literature

Christian Patz: Wilhelm Hasbach. Political scientist avant la lettre? In: Wilhelm Knelangen , Tine Stein (ed.): Continuity and controversy. The history of political science at the University of Kiel. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8375-0763-8 , pp. 211-230.
Siegfried Wendt: Hasbach, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 17 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm Hasbach - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. Dirk Käsler : The dispute about the definition of sociology at the German sociologist days 1910 to 1930, in: M. Rainer Lepsius (ed.): Sociology in Germany and Austria 1918-1945 . Special issue 23 of the "Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie", Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1981, pp. 199–244; here p. 210.

personal data
SURNAME	Hasbach, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German economist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Venauen near Mülheim / Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH	April 30, 1920
Place of death	Karlsruhe

[1] Cf. Dirk Käsler : The dispute about the definition of sociology at the German sociologist days 1910 to 1930, in: M. Rainer Lepsius (ed.): Sociology in Germany and Austria 1918-1945 . Special issue 23 of the "Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie", Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1981, pp. 199–244; here p. 210.