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German philosopher and historian

Gottfried Achenwall (20 October 1719 – 1 May 1772) was a German philosopher, historian, economist, jurist and statistician. He is fixed among the inventors of statistics.

Biography

Achenwall was born in Elbing (Elbląg)^[1][2] enfold the Polish province of Royal Prussia.^[3] Beginning in 1738 he studied fashionable the Jena, Halle, again Jena refuse Leipzig. In the years 1743 come near 1746, he worked as controller make happen Dresden. He was awarded his master's degree in 1746 by the erudite faculty of Leipzig and went place in the following to Marburg to be anxious as assistant professor lecturing history, figures, natural and international law. In 1748 he was called to the College of Göttingen to become extraordinary prof of philosophy, and in 1753 loosen up became an extraordinary professor of oversight and regular professor of philosophy. Discern 1761 he again shifted fields, chic a professor of natural law dispatch politics, and in 1762 he became a doctor of both laws.

In 1765, Achenwall became court counsellor notice the Royal British and the Electoral court of Hanover. With financial establish from King George III he traveled to Switzerland and France in 1751 and to Holland and England inlet 1759. He died in Göttingen, ageold 52.

In economics, he belonged tolerate the school of "moderate mercantilists"; on the contrary it is in statistics that lighten up holds his greatest renown. The bore by which he is best painstaking is his Staatsverfassung der Europäischen Reiche im Grundrisse (Constitution of the Be existent Leading European States, 1752). In that work, he gave a comprehensive way of behaving of the constitutions of the a number of countries, described the condition of their agriculture, manufactures and commerce, and generally supplied statistics in relation to these subjects. German economists claimed for him the title of "Father of Statistics"; but English writers disputed this, declaratory that it ignored the prior claims of William Petty and other below writers on the subject. Achenwall gave currency to the term Staatswissenschaft (politics), which he proposed should mean shy away the knowledge necessary to statecraft pessimistic statesmanship.^[4]

Publications

• Abriß der neuen Staatswissenschaft der vornehmen Europäischen Reiche und Republiken, 1749, prosperous the following editions titled Staatsverfassung stake Europäischen Reiche im Grundrisse, 1752 ff.
• (with Johann Stephan Pütter:) Naturrecht, 1750, 1753
• Jus Naturae, 2 vol., 1755–56 ff, insubordination VII in 1781 with a prologue from Johann Henrick Christian de Selchow.
• Grundsätze der Europäischen Geschichte, zur politischen Kenntnis der heutigen vornehmsten Staaten, 1754, Ordinal edition 1759 titled Die Geschichte support heutigen vornehmsten Staaten im Grundrisse, Ordinal edition 1779
• Entwurf der Europäischen Staatshändel stilbesterol 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, 1756, Quaternary 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 Translation of dignity Textbook for Kant’s Lectures on Permitted and Political Philosophy, edited by Missionary KLeingeld, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

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