Lujo Brentano

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Lujo Brentano
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Lujo[1] Brentano (/brɛnˈtɑːnoʊ/; German: [bʁɛnˈtaːno]; 18 December 1844 – 9 September 1931) was an eminent German economist and social reformer.

Biography

Lujo Brentano, born in

Trinity College), Münster, Munich, Heidelberg (doctorate in law), Würzburg, Göttingen (doctorate in economics), and Berlin (habilitation
in economics, 1871).

He was a professor of

Breslau, Strasbourg, Vienna, Leipzig, and most importantly, Munich (1891–1914). With Ernst Engel, the statistician, he made an investigation of the English trade unions.[3]

In 1872, he became involved in an extended dispute with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Brentano accused Marx of falsifying a quotation from an 1863 speech by William Gladstone.[4]

In 1914, he signed the

revolution of November 1918, he served in minister-president Kurt Eisner's government of the People's State of Bavaria as People's Commissar (Minister) for Trade, but only for some days in December 1918.[citation needed
]

Lujo Brentano in 1927

Brentano died in Munich in 1931, aged 86.[citation needed]

Legacy

Brentano was a

Kathedersozialist, a professor advocating social reform, and a founding member of the Verein für Socialpolitik. His influence on the social market economy, and on many Germans who would be leaders just after the end of World War II, can hardly be overrated. He also influenced later economists, such as his doctoral student Arthur Salz
.

Bibliography

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lujo Brentano.
Wikisource has the text of a 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article about Lujo Brentano.

References

  1. '
    first name
    . (See his autobiography,     Mein Leben im Kampf um die soziale Entwicklung Deutschlands, p. 18.)
  2. ^ Lujo Brentano was the son of the writer Christian Brentano, nephew of writers Clemens Brentano and Bettina von Arnim, two major figures in the romantic movement in German literature, and the brother of Franz Brentano, a philosopher whose students included Edmund Husserl, Alexius Meinong and Sigmund Freud, among others.
  3. New International Encyclopedia
    (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
  4. ^ Friedrich Engels, In the Case of Brentano vs. Marx - Regarding Alleged Faslifications of Quotation: The Story and Documents. (1891)
  5. ^ Rudolf Steiner, Education as a Force for Social Change, Anthroposophic Press, 1997, Lecture 1 (Dornach / 9 August 1919): "I recently mentioned the example of the famous professor Lujo Brentano, a leading modern economist in Middle Europe who recently wrote an article entitled “The Industrialist.” In it he develops three characteristics of an industrialist."

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