Karl Knies

Karl Gustav Adolf Knies ( born March 29, 1821 in Marburg, † August 3, 1898 in Heidelberg ) was a German economist. He is best known as the author of The Political Economy from the historical point of view, a methodological treatise on the Historical school of economics. Knee taught for over thirty years at the University of Heidelberg and was one of the supporters of a theory of the Historical School.

Life

In the years 1841-1845 knee studied at the University of Marburg and completed this study successfully in 1846 with a dissertation. On behalf of the Minister Bernhard Eberhard March 1849, he worked out the plan for the establishment of a Polytechnic in Kassel, at which he was to take a teaching job. Yet smashed his promotion to professor because he refused to make the statement that he wanted to recite anything of the policy of the Ministry Hassenpflug derogatory.

In 1852 he took a teaching job at the college Schaffhausen; In 1855 he was appointed professor of Kameralwissenschaften to Freiburg im Breisgau and wrote there in 1860 when the completion of the Baden Concordat was imminent, the " memorandum of Protestant professors at the State University of Freiburg Baden ." Following the appointment of a liberal ministry, he was elected to the Second Chamber of the States General Baden and 1862 appointed Director of the Upper School Board.

In this position, he worked the template for a reform of the Baden elementary school system and, when the agitation of the Catholic clergy intensified the Baden school conflict, the special law on the Supervisory Authorities for Elementary Schools ( 29 July 1864) out of which the spiritual Schulvisitatoren and local inspections secular school boards replaced. As between the government and the Ultramontanes a compromise was reached, knee resigned and was appointed professor of political science in Heidelberg 1865. Knee is one of the representatives of the historical direction in the economy. From 1877-1887 knee was appointed by the Grand Duke member of the First Chamber of the States General.

Works (selection)

• The statistics as an independent science. Kassel 1850.
• The Catholic hierarchy etc.. Halle 1852.
• The political economy from the standpoint of the historical method. Braunschweig 1853 (2nd edition 1883).
• The railroads and their effects. Braunschweig 1853.
• The Telegraph as transportation. Tübingen 1857.
• The service of soldiers and the shortcomings of Konskriptionspraxis. Freiburg 1860.
• For the doctrine of the economic freight. Tübingen 1862.
• Fiscal policy discussions. Heidelberg in 1871.
• Money and credit. Berlin 1873/1876 ( 3 vols, 2nd edition 1885 et seq )
• World money and world coin. Berlin 1874.