Lujo Brentano

Lujo Brentano
Born (1844-12-18)18 December 1844
Aschaffenburg, Germany
Died 9 September 1931(1931-09-09) (aged 86)
München, Germany
Fields Economist
Institutions University of Munich
Alma mater University of Göttingen (Ph.D.)
Trinity College Dublin
Doctoral advisor Adolph Wagner (Habitilation)
Johann Alfons Renatus von Helferich (Ph.D.)
Doctoral students Theodor Heuss
Robert Kuczynski
Werner Hegemann
Fukuda Tokuzō
Hans Ehrenberg

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

Biography

Lujo Brentano, born in Aschaffenburg into one of the most distinguished German-Catholic intellectual families (originally of Italian descent),[1] attended school in Augsburg and Aschaffenburg. He studied in Dublin (Trinity College), Münster, Munich, Heidelberg (doctorate in law), Würzburg, Göttingen (doctorate in economics), and Berlin (habilitation in economics, 1871).

He was a professor of economics and state sciences at the universities 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.[2] In 1914, he signed the Manifesto of the Ninety-Three. After the revolution of November 1918, he served in prime minister Kurt Eisner's government as People's Commissar (Minister) for Trade, but only for some days in December 1918.

Brentano died in Munich in 1931.

Legacy

Brentano was a Kathedersozialist (reform-minded) 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.

Note: It is often mistakenly claimed that Brentano was called Ludwig Joseph, and that "Lujo" was a kind of nickname or contraction. This is incorrect; while he was given his name after a Ludwig and a Joseph, Lujo was his real and legal first name. (See his autobiography, Mein Leben..., below, p. 18.)

Bibliography

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References

  1. ↑ Lujo Brentano was the son of the writer Christian Brentano, the nephew of the 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.
  2. ↑  Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Brentano, Lujo". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
  3. ↑ Rudolf Steiner, Education as a Force for Social Change, Anthroposophic Press, 1997, Lecture 1 (Dornach / August 9, 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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