Hermann Roesler

Carl Friedrich Hermann Roesler ( born December 18, 1834 in Lauf an der Pegnitz, † December 2, 1894 in Bolzano ) was a German economist.

Biography

Hermann Roesler was the son of the district court lawyer Christoph Carl Friedrich Maximilian Roesler (1798-1841) and his wife Sophie Wilhelmine born Nagelsbach, sister of the philologist Karl Friedrich nails Bach ( 1806-1859 ).

He attended the Nuremberg Melanchthon -Gymnasium and studied from 1852 to 1856 in Erlangen and Munich, law and political sciences. 1856 Roesler put the first legal state examination in 1858, the second and received his doctorate in 1860 in Erlangen, Dr. jur. utr. , the same year in Tübingen Dr. the state economy. Already in the following year he completed his habilitation in Erlangen, whereupon he took up a full professorship in Rostock.

1878 Hermann Roesler joined the Lutheran Confessions to Catholicism, which is why he was not allowed to stay longer in the Mecklenburg government service. So he went in the same year as a counselor of the Japanese Foreign Ministry and then the Japanese Cabinet to Tokyo, where he remained until 1893. His relationship to the local German Embassy and the German Community is described as frosty. Roesler was instrumental in the drafting of the Japanese Commercial Code and the Meiji Constitution.

The grave stone bears the following multi-line Latin inscription:

"Ad PIAM memoriam. Hic in domino pie requiescunt C [ arolus ] F [ ridericus ] Arminius Roesler, utriusque iuris itemque Philosophiae et oeconomiae nationalist doctor ac prof [ essor ] universitate in Rostock, postea referens consiliarius caesarii Japonensis regni, qui natus XVIII. dec [ embris ] ann [o ] MDCCCXXXIV. in run ( Bavaria ), † II dec [ embris ] anno MDCCCXCIV. in castello Compil Bulsani; vir justus fuit - unacum coniuge Agnete M [ artha ] N. Tumour piissima mitique matrona nata III. aug [ usti ] MDCCCLI in Kingwood ap [ ud ] Brampton ( Anglia), † the XXII. aug [ usti ] anno MCMXXI. in St. Petr [o ] ap [ ud ] Bulsanum. [Matthew 5:5-10: ] Beati qui lugent; beati qui propter persecutionem patiuntur iustitiam, Quoniam ipsorum est regnum coelorum. XR [ Christ ]. Gruber Gries. "

Works

  • For a critique of the theory of wages: a volkswirthschaftlicher attempt. Erlangen: Enke 1861.
  • About the basic teachings of the founded by Adam Smith national economy theory. 2nd edition, Erlangen: Deichert in 1871.
  • Textbook of German administrative law, 2 vols Erlangen: Deichert 1872-1873.
  • Lectures on national economy. Erlangen: Deichert 1878.
  • Draft trade - Code for Japan. With Commentary, 3 vols Tokyo 1884.
  • The German nation and the Preußenthum. Zurich: Schmidt 1893.
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