Johannes Conrad

John Conrad ( born February 28, 1839 the estate Borkau in a circle Mewe, West Prussia, † April 25, 1915 in Halle ( Saale) ) was a German economist.

Life

Conrad's father was a landowner in West Prussia. His spent his childhood at his father's estate Plochoczin. Conrad devoted himself in the beginning of agriculture, studied this, forced by physical suffering to the abandonment of the practical activity, natural sciences, and finally in Berlin and Jena political science. During his studies he was Conkneipant in Agronomy Jena, since he could not fight themselves. Later he founded in Halle a turn connection and received several honorary bands of other fraternities. After completing his studies he made long journeys in Italy, England, France, Poland, Hungary, in 1868 qualified as a lecturer in Jena, was appointed associate professor in 1870 and appointed in the same year as a full professor in Halle. Since 1909, his wife was blind, making him difficult oppressed; In 1911 he lost his wife.

From 1878 to 1890 he was the sole editor of Bruno Hildebrand founded in 1862 in Jena year Journal of Economics and Statistics, which he had mitredigiert since 1872.

1891 to 1897 he was, together with Ludwig Elster, Wilhelm Lexis and Edgar Loening, who were already connected Conrads yearbooks, the Handbook of Political Sciences in Gustav Fischer Verlag in Jena out (2nd edition 1898-1901; 3rd edition 1909-1911 ).

Writings

• Liebig's view of the agricultural soil exhaustion. Jena 1864
• The university studies in Germany. Jena 1884
• The statistics of agricultural production
• Findelanstalten
• Rodbertus pension principle
• Agricultural Statistical studies and other essays in the yearbooks of Economics and Statistics
• He also gave out since 1877, the collection of works of political science seminar in Halle, which was under his leadership.