Karl Rathgen

Karl Rathgen (December 6, 1856 in Weimar, † November 6, 1921 in Hamburg ) was a German political economist and founding rector of the University of Hamburg.

After studying in Strasbourg, Halle, Leipzig and Berlin, he passed the state examination in 1880 in Naumburg and became rer with a thesis on the development of the markets in Germany in the same year Dr. in Strasbourg. pol. doctorate.

From 1882 to 1890 he taught Public Law, Statistics and Management Science at the Tokyo Imperial University and was also an advisor to the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce.

After his habilitation in Berlin in 1892 were made (Topic: Japan's economy and state budget ) Rathgen 1893 was extraordinary, in 1895 ordinary professor at the University of Marburg from 1900 to 1907 and represented by Max Weber Chair in Heidelberg. In 1907 he was appointed to the newly formed Colonial Institute in Hamburg and took over after its conversion into a university in 1919 adjacent to the Rectorate also the chair of political economy, colonial policy and finance.

From 1913 to 1914 Rathgen taught as an exchange professor at Columbia University in New York.

He stepped forward, especially with publications on Japan and had great influence on the German image of the Japanese economy.

Works

  • Japan's economy and state budget. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891.
  • The Japanese and their economic development. Teubner, Leipzig, 1905.
  • State and culture of the Japanese. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1907.
  • Officialdom and colonial education, speech, delivered at the opening ceremony of the Hamburg Colonial Institute on October 20, 1908 Hamburg, Voss, 1908
  • The Japanese in the global economy. Teubner, Leipzig, 1911.
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