Ignaz Jastrow

German economist and historian
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IntroGerman economist and historian
PlacesGermany
wasEconomist Historian Sociologist Educator
Work fieldAcademia Finance Social science
Gender
Male
Birth13 September 1856, Nakło nad Notecią
Death2 May 1937Charlottenburg (aged 80 years)
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Biography

Ignaz Jastrow (September 13, 1856, Nakel - May 2, 1937, Berlin) was a German economist and historian.

Biography

He was educated at the universities of Breslau, Berlin, and Göttingen. He became a university docent at Berlin in 1885 and was Leopold von Ranke's assistant in historical work. In 1904 he pursued industrial investigations in the United States, and in 1905 became professor of Administrative Science at Berlin.

Works

  • Die Volkszahl deutscher Städte zu Ende des Mittelalters und zu Beginn der Neuzeit. 1886. 
  • Geschichte des deutschen Einheitstraumes und seiner Erfüllung (1884; fourth edition, 1891)
  • Socialliberal (1893, second edition, 1894)
  • Die Einrichtung von Arbeitsnachweisverbänden (second edition, 1900)
  • Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Hohenstaufen (1879-1901), with George Winter
  • Kaufmannsbildung und Hochschulbildung (1907)
  • Bürgertum und Staatsverwaltung (1907)
  • Handelshochschulen (1909)
  • Gedächtnisrede auf Dunker (1911)
  • Arbeiterschutz (1912)
  • Geld und Kredit (1914)

He edited the Jahresberichte der Geschichtswissenschaft (1881–94); Sociale Praxis (1895–97); Das Gewerbegericht (1896 et seq.); and Der Arbeitsmarkt (1897 et seq.).

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