Richard Ehrenberg

Richard Ehrenberg ( born February 5, 1857 in Wolfenbüttel, † December 17, 1921 in Rostock ) was a German economist.

Richard Ehrenberg was born into a Jewish family of teachers from the resin. His brother is the later jurist Victor Ehrenberg Gabriel. Ehrenberg attended high school in Wolfenbüttel to the Lower Sixth. He then completed a banking apprenticeship in Hanover and worked in banks and, temporarily, in bookstores. Ehrenberg was a correspondent in Hamburg bank, CL Behrens & Co. Since 1884, Ehrenberg studied economics and political science in Tübingen, Göttingen and Munich. In Tübingen, he received his doctorate in 1886 with summa cum laude as a doctor of political sciences. There followed years of travel and archive studies on economic history topics. From 1888 to 1897 he was secretary of the Royal College commerce in Altona. There followed a series of economic history studies and some studies on trade, shipping and financial history, particularly to Hamburg. 1892 wrote a treatise on this, founded in 1738 commercial advocacy. The main work is considered his performance on the Age of the Fugger and the monetary and credit transactions in the 16th century (1896, three editions, translations into English and French ). Ehrenberg in 1897 without postdoctoral associate professor of political science at Göttingen, where he especially taught actuarial science and commercial science. From 1899 to 1921 he taught as a professor of political science at the University of Rostock. His teaching and research interests were economics, agrarian relations Mecklenburg and methods of economics. In Rostock, he was responsible for the processing and preservation of the estate of Johann Heinrich von Thünen. In 1901 he established as the foundation Thünen archive at the Political Science Department at the University of Rostock. 1916, the Privy Councilor title he was awarded. The Ehrenbergstraße in 1950 was named in the Altona district after him.

Writings

• Hamburg and Antwerp for 300 years. Two lectures held in the club of Hamburg History. Herold'sche bookstore, Hamburg, 1889, online ( PDF, 31.13 MB).
• Hamburg and England in the Age of Queen Elizabeth. Fischer, Jena, 1896, online ( PDF, 267.6 MB).
• The walkout of the Hamburg Dockers 1896/97. In: Yearbooks of Economics and Statistics. Episode 3, Vol 13, 1897 Vol = 68, ISSN 0021-4027, pp. 641-658.
• The house Parish in Hamburg ( = Large capacity, its origin and meaning. Vol. 2). Fischer, Jena, 1905, online ( PDF, 111.37 MB ), ( 2, unchanged edition ibid 1925. ).
• The Age of the Fugger. Money capital and credit traffic in the 16th century. 2 vols. Fischer, Jena, 1896 ( several reprints, in English: Capital and Finance in the Age of the Renaissance A Study of the Fuggers and Their Connections ( = The Belford Series of Economic Handbooks Vol 2) Jonathan Cape, London 1928; into. .. French:. Le siècle des Fugger (. = Oeuvres étrangčres Vol 2, ZDB - ID 416290-0 ) Édition abrégée SEVPEN, Paris 1955).. Volume 1: The money powers of the 16th century.
• Volume 2: The world stock exchanges and financial crises of the 16th century.