Bruno Hildebrand

Frederick Bruno Hildebrand ( born March 6, 1812 in Naumburg ( Saale), † January 29, 1878 in Jena ) was a German economist and politician.

Life

Hildebrand studied law in Leipzig, then in Breslau. In Leipzig he joined in 1832 the Alte Leipziger fraternity to. After he had worked for several years as a lecturer and associate professor in Breslau, he followed in 1841 to teach at Marburg, where he was taken by his independent occurrence with the government soon in conflict. Nevertheless, he was 1844/45 Rector of the University of Marburg.

1846 Hildebrand was accused and suspended for a London newspaper published in the German article of lese majeste. His acquittal was only in early 1848.

In 1848 he was a delegate in the Pre-Parliament. From 18 May 1848 to the end of the Rump Parliament on June 18, 1849 Hildebrand represented the electoral district of Marburg in the Frankfurt National Assembly, where he was represented, among others, in the economic committee and the Committee on Education and Church Affairs. From 1849 to 1850 he represented Bock home in the Hessian Landtag. The Minister came to power again Hassenpflug he came towards the most determined and caused by the refusal of his application of that coveted financial aid, which had the dissolution of the national assembly result.

From 1851 to 1856 Hildebrand taught at the Zurich University; then appointed to Bern, where he founded the first Statistical Bureau of Switzerland, and followed in 1861 appointed Professor of political science and director of the Statistical Büreaus the Thuringian States to Jena, where he was among other things a teacher Hans von Scheel and end in January 1878 died.

Bruno Hildebrand's son Richard Hildebrand (1840-1918) was also an economist, his son Adolf von Hildebrand (1847-1921) was one of Germany's most famous sculptors of his time.

Works

  • The political economy of the present and future. Frankfurt / Main 1848.
  • The Hessian financial management. Kassel 1850.
  • Statistical releases on the economic conditions of Electoral Hesse. Berlin 1853.
  • Contributions to the statistics of the Canton of Bern, Bern Vol 1 1860.
  • Since 1863, Hildebrand was the year Journal of Economics and Statistics ( since 1873 with John Conrad) out; He also published the official statistics source book of Thuringia, 2 vols Jena 1867-1878.
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