- Gustav von Schönberg
Gustav von Schönberg (
July 21 ,1839 inStettin – 1908) was a Germaneconomist .Schönberg studied
law andpolitics at the universities of Bonn and Berlin. After successfully completing these studies in 1860, he transferred to thecivil service and was promoted to "Gerichtsassessor " within five years.Subsequently, Schönberg worked at the Seminar of the Prussian Statistical Bureaux. In 1867, he took up up the role of Lecturer in Political Economy at the Prussian Agricultural Institute in
Proskau , where, among other things, he was heavily involved in the establishment of several agricultural cooperatives inSchlesien .In autumn 1868, Schönberg was appointed Professor ordinarius of Economics at the
University of Basel . In 1870, he moved to theAlbert Ludwigs University of Freiburg as an economist. Three years later, he moved again to theUniversity of Tübingen , where, in addition to his role as Professor ordinarius in Political Science, he was also Chancellor for some years. Starting in 1887, Schönberg edited the journal "Tübinger Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft" (Tübingen Magazine for the Entire Political Sciences) together withAlbert Schäffle andKarl Viktor Fricker .Schönberg was an engaged member of the Association for Social Politics and campaigned vehemently for social issues of the "labour question".
On
December 7 ,1907 , Schönberg was namedhonorary citizen of the City of Tübingen. He died in 1908 at the age of 69.elected Works
* "Arbeitsämter. Eine Aufgabe des Deutschen Reichs". Berlin 1871
* "Basels Bevölkerungszahl im 15. Jahrhundert". Jena 1883
* "Die deutsche Freihandelsschule und die Partei der Eisenacher Versammlung vom Oktober 1872". Tübingen 1873
* "Finanzverhältnisse der Stadt Basel im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert". Heidelberg 1879
* "Die Frauenfrage". Basel 1872
* "Handbuch der politischen Ökonomie". Tübingen 1885-86 (3 volumes, together with Benecke, Conrad, and others)
* "Zur Handwerkerfrage". Heidelberg 1876
* "Die Landwirtschaft der Gegenwart und das Genossenschaftsprinzip". Berlin 1869
* "Die sittlich religiöse Bedeutung der sozialen Frage". 2. Aufl., Stuttgart 1876
* "Die Sozialpolitik des Deutschen Reichs". Tübingen 1886
* "Die Volkswirtschaft der Gegenwart im Leben und in der Wissenschaft". Basel 1869
* "Die Volkswirtschaftslehre". Berlin 1873
* "Zur wirtschaftlichen Bedeutung des Zunftwesens im Mittelalter". Berlin 1868References
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* The German wikipedia article above is, in turn, based on the public-domain dictionaryMeyers Konversations-Lexikon , 4th edition, 1888-1890.
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