Karl Bücher

Karl Wilhelm books, rare Carl ( born February 16, 1847 in Kirberg, Hesse, † November 12, 1930 in Leipzig ) was a German economist. He was one of the founding fathers of the science of journalism in Europe. Innovative were his contributions to the sociology of work (labor and rhythm ) and Economic History ( The Origin of the economy ). He also dealt with reciprocal processes in society.

Biography

Books was the son of brush-making master Friedrich books, a small industrial production and agriculture operation in Kirberg, and his wife Christiane. Karl attended books 1863-1866 high school in Hadamar. At the universities of Bonn and Göttingen he studied Ancient History and Philology. After completing his doctorate, which he completed in 1870, it was 1872, the state exam and worked in the probationary year as a teacher in Dortmund. From 1873 to 1878 he was a teacher at the SN School in Frankfurt am Main. During this time he pursued national economic studies on its teaching activity also.

1878 books took an offer from the editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung, Leopold sun man, and there was editor of the social and economic ministries. From an increasingly outcropping interest in the social and economic policy issues at the beginning of the era of Bismarck, he took a postdoctoral eye. In 1881 he received the venia legendi of Economics and Statistics at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. After Ordinariate at the universities of Tartu and Basel and at the Technical University of Karlsruhe in 1892 he followed a call to Leipzig, he taught there until 1917.

From 1901 to 1923 he was editor of the journal for the entire political science.

Biicher national economic work is characteristic of the knowledge perspective of the " younger Historical School " in economics. This had the contemporary problems to reach the goal, through the reconstruction of their historical roots on the track. This is also Biicher "economic stage theory " is that he represented in the work with which he gained as an economist and fame, his two-part essay collection " The emergence of the national economy " (1893, 1918).

Little known is that books along with Johann Friedrich warping the inventor of the (now called ) Break - even analysis is. He formulated the law of mass production.

After his retirement books devoted to the field that him throughout his life - accompanied - practical, theoretical in its national economic doctrine in his years as a journalist for the Frankfurter Zeitung: the science of journalism. In 1916 he established at the University of Leipzig the first institute for newspaper customers in Germany. The goal of the institute was to enable the student journalists an academically sound and well as pre-employment newspaper specialized training in order to raise the level of press. On the other hand, he wanted to create a place of serious scientific research for the press. 1926 culminated his efforts for the compartment in the establishment of the first full professorship for customer newspaper, was appointed to the Erich Everth.

He was interred in the columbarium at the South Cemetery Leipzig ( niche II/25 ). The urn was stolen in the early 1990s.

Foreign politicians and industrialists Hermann books was his nephew.

Honors

• His students built him in Bad Love Stone in the forest near his summer home ( My Belvedere), a monument.
• The Karl -Books- streets like in Bremen- Mahndorf and Leipzig- Paunsdorf were named after him.