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HERMANN OF WIED (1477-1552)

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HERMANN OF WIED (1477-1552)  , elector and See also:archbishop of See also:Cologne, was the See also:fourth son of See also:Frederick, See also:count of Wied (d . 1487), and was See also:born on the 14th of See also:January 1477 . Educated for the See also:Church, he became elector and archbishop in 1515, and ruled his electorate with vigour and intelligence, taking up at first an attitude of hostility towards the reformers and their teaching . A See also:quarrel with the papacy turned, or helped to turn, his thoughts in the direction of Church reform, but he hoped this would come from within rather than from without, and with the aid of his friend See also:John Gropper (1503-1559), began, about 1536, to See also:institute certain reforms in his own See also:diocese . One step led to another, and as all efforts at See also:union failed the elector invited See also:Martin See also:Bucer to Cologne in 1542 . Supported by the estates of the electorate, and relying upon the See also:recess of the See also:diet of See also:Regensburg in 1541, he encouraged Bucer to See also:press on with the See also:work of reform, and in 1543' invited See also:Melanchthon to his assistance . His See also:conversion was hailed with See also:great joy by the Protestants, and the See also:league of See also:Schmalkalden declared they were resolved to defend him; but the See also:Reformation in the electorate received checks from the victory of See also:Charles V. over See also:William, See also:duke of See also:Cleves, and the hostility of the citizens of Cologne . Summoned both before the See also:emperor and the See also:pope, the elector was deposed and excommunicated by See also:Paul III. in 1546 . He resigned his See also:office in See also:February 1547, and retired to Wied . See also:Hermann, who was also a See also:bishop of See also:Paderborn from 1532 to 1547, died on the 15th of See also:August 1552 . See C . Varrentrapp, Hermann von Wied (See also:Leipzig, 1878) .

HERMANN, See also:

FRIEDRICH See also:BENEDICT WILHELM VON (1795-1868), See also:German economist, was born on the 5th of See also:December 1795, at See also:Dinkelsbuhl in See also:Bavaria . After See also:finishing his See also:primary See also:education he was for some See also:time employed in a draughtsman's office . He then resumed his studies, partly at the gymnasium in his native See also:town, partly at the See also:universities of See also:Erlangen and See also:Wurzburg . In ,817 he took up a private school at See also:Nuremberg, where he remained for four years . After filling an See also:appointment as teacher of See also:mathematics at the gymnasium of Erlangen, he became in 1823 Privatdozent at the university in that town . His inaugural dissertation was on the notions of See also:political See also:economy among the See also:Romans (Dissertatio exhibens sententias Romanorum ad oeconomiam politicam pertinentes, Erlangen, 1823) . He after-wards acted as See also:professor of mathematics at the gymnasium and See also:polytechnic school in Nuremberg, where he continued till 1827 . During his stay there he published an elementary See also:treatise on See also:arithmetic and See also:algebra (Lehrbuch der Arith. u . Algeb., 1826), and made a See also:journey to See also:France to inspect the organization and conduct of technical See also:schools in that See also:country . The results of his investigation were published in 1826 and 1828 (Uber technische Unterrichts-Anstalten) . Soon after his return from France he was made professor extraordinarius of political See also:science of the university of See also:Munich, and in 1833 he was advanced to the See also:rank of See also:ordinary professor . In 1832 appeared the first edition of his great work on political economy, Staatswirthschaftliche Untersuchungen .

In 1835 he was made member of the Royal Bavarian See also:

Academy of Sciences . From the See also:year 1836 he acted as inspector of technical instruction in Bavaria, and made frequent journeys to See also:Berlin and See also:Paris in See also:order to study the methods there pursued . In the See also:state service of Bavaria, to which he devoted himself, he See also:rose rapidly . In 1837 he was placed on the See also:council for superintendence of church and school work; in 1839 he was entrusted with the direction of the See also:bureau of See also:statistics; in 1845 he was one of the councillors for the interior; in 1848 he sat as member for Munich in the See also:national See also:assembly at See also:Frankfort . In this assembly Hermann, with Johann Heckscher and others, was mainly instrumental in organizing the so-called " Great German " party, and was selected as one of the representatives of their views at See also:Vienna . Warmly supporting the customs union (See also:Zollverein), he acted in 1851 as one of its commissioners at the great See also:industrial See also:exhibition at See also:London, and published an elaborate See also:report on the woollen goods . Three years later he was See also:president of the See also:committee of See also:judges at the similar exhibition at Munich, and the report of its proceedings was See also:drawn up by him . In 1855 he became councillor of state, the highest See also:honour in the service . From 1835 to 1847 he contributed a See also:long See also:series of reviews, mainly of See also:works on economical subjects, to the Munchener gelehrte Anzeigen and also wrote for See also:Rau's Archiv der politischen Okonomie and the Augsburger allgemeine Zeitung . As See also:head of the bureau of statistics he published a series of valuable See also:annual reports (Beitrage zur Statistik See also:des Konigreichs Bayern, Hefte 1-17, 1850—1867) . He was engaged at the time of his See also:death, on the 23rd of See also:November '868, upon a second edition of his Staatswirthschaftliche Untersuchungen, which was published in 1870 . Hermann's rare technological knowledge gave him a great See also:advantage in dealing with some economic questions .

He reviewed the See also:

principal fundamental ideas of the science with great thoroughness and acuteness . " His strength," says See also:Roscher, " lies in his clear, See also:sharp, exhaustive distinction between the several elements of a complex conception, or the several steps comprehended in a complex See also:act." For keen See also:analytical See also:power his German brethren compare him with See also:Ricardo . But he avoids several one-sided views of the See also:English economist . Thus he places public spirit beside See also:egoism as an economic motor, regards See also:price as not measured by labour only but as a product of several factors, and habitually contemplates the See also:consumption of the labourer, not as a See also:part of the cost of See also:production to the capitalist, but as the See also:main See also:practical end of See also:economics . See Kautz, Gesch . Eniwicklung d . National-Okonomik, pp . 633-638 ; Roscher, Gesch. d . Nat.-Okon. in Deutschland, pp . 86o-879 .

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