Ignaz Jastrow

Ignaz Jastrow (September 13 1856 - May 2 1937 in Berlin) was a German economist and historian, born in Nakel and 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. He edited the "Jahresberichte der Geschichtswissenschaft" (1881-94); "Sociale Praxis" (1895-97); "Das Gewerbegericht" (1896 et seq.); "Der Arbeitsmarkt" (1897 et seq.); and wrote many works, amongst them are:
* "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)

In 1904 he pursued industrial investigations in the United States, and in 1905 became professor of administrative science at Berlin.

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