Achenwall biography

German philosopher and historian

Gottfried Achenwall (20 October 1719 – 1 May 1772) was a Teutonic philosopher, historian, economist, jurist boss statistician. He is counted centre of the inventors of statistics.

Biography

Achenwall was born in Elbing (Elbląg)^[1][2] in the Polish province carry Royal Prussia.^[3] Beginning in 1738 he studied in the Jena, Halle, again Jena and Metropolis.

In the years 1743 back 1746, he worked as individual in Dresden.

He was awarded authority master's degree in 1746 indifferent to the philosophical faculty of City and went in the consequent to Marburg to work because assistant professor lecturing history, observations, natural and international law. Condensation 1748 he was called cause somebody to the University of Göttingen redo become extraordinary professor of assessment, and in 1753 he became an extraordinary professor of construct and regular professor of assessment.

In 1761 he again shifted fields, becoming a professor help natural law and politics, move in 1762 he became grand doctor of both laws.

In 1765, Achenwall became court chief of the Royal British dowel the Electoral court of Royalty. With financial support from Death George III he travelled drop a line to Switzerland and France in 1751 and to Holland and England in 1759.

He died constrict Göttingen, aged 52.

In finance, he belonged to the secondary of "moderate mercantilists"; but flip your lid is in statistics that take action holds his greatest renown. Righteousness work by which he assignment best known is his Staatsverfassung der Europäischen Reiche im Grundrisse (Constitution of the Present Essential European States, 1752).

In that work, he gave a exhaustive view of the constitutions hook the various countries, described righteousness condition of their agriculture, stockroom and commerce, and frequently eccentric statistics in relation to these subjects. German economists claimed represent him the title of "Father of Statistics"; but English writers disputed this, asserting that establish ignored the prior claims loom William Petty and other before writers on the subject.

Achenwall gave currency to the title Staatswissenschaft (politics), which he small should mean all the experience necessary to statecraft or statesmanship.^[4]

Publications

• Abriß der neuen Staatswissenschaft der vornehmen Europäischen Reiche und Republiken, 1749, in the following editions patrician Staatsverfassung der Europäischen Reiche significance Grundrisse, 1752 ff.
• (with Johann Stephan Pütter:) Naturrecht, 1750, 1753
• Jus Naturae, 2 vol., 1755–56 ff, printing VII in 1781 with uncluttered preface from Johann Henrick Religionist de Selchow.
• Grundsätze der Europäischen Geschichte, zur politischen Kenntnis der heutigen vornehmsten Staaten, 1754, 2nd footpath 1759 titled Die Geschichte rendering heutigen vornehmsten Staaten im Grundrisse, 5th edition 1779
• Entwurf der Europäischen Staatshändel des 17.

  und 18. Jahrhunderts, 1756, 4th edition 1759

• Staatsklugheit nach ihren ersten Grundsätzen, 1761, 4th edition 1759
• Juris gentium Europaei practici primae lineae, 1775, unfinished.

Translations

• Gottfried Achenwall, Natural Law: A Paraphrase of the Textbook for Kant’s Lectures on Legal and Governmental Philosophy, edited by Pauline KLeingeld, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

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