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GOTTLIEB See also:HUFELAND (1760-1817)
, See also:German economist and jurist, was See also:born at Dantzig on the 19th of See also:October 1760
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He was educated at the gymnasium of his native See also:town, and completed his university studies at See also:Leipzig and See also:Gottingen
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He graduated at See also:Jena, and in 1788 was there appointed to an extraordinary professorship
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Five years later he was made See also:ordinary See also:professor
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His lectures on natural See also:law, in which he See also:developed with See also:great acuteness and skill the formal principles of the Kantian theory of legislation, attracted a large See also:audience, and contributed to raise to its height the fame of the university of Jena, then unusually See also:rich in able teachers
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In 1803, after the See also:secession of many of his colleagues from Jena, See also:Hufeland accepted a See also:call to See also:Wurzburg, from which, after but a brief See also:tenure of a professorial See also:chair, he proceeded to See also:Landshut
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From 18o8 to 1812 he acted as burgomaster in his native town of Dantzig
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Returning to Landshut, he lived there till 1816, when he was invited to See also:Halle, where he died on the 25th of See also:February 1817
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Hufeland's See also:works on the theory of legislation—Versuch fiber den Grundsatz Naturrechts (1785); Lehrbuch See also:des Naturrechts (1,790); Institutionen des gesammten positiven Rechts (1798) ; and Lehrbuch der Geschichte and Encyclopadie aller in Deutschland geltenden positiven
Rechte (1790), are distinguished by precision of statement and clearness of See also:deduction
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They See also:form on the whole the best commentary upon See also:Kant's Rechtslehre, the principles of which they carry out in detail, and apply to the discussion of See also:positive See also:laws
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In See also:political See also:economy Hufeland's See also:chief See also:work is the Neue Grundlegung der Staatszoirthschaftskunst (2 vols., 1807 and 1813), the second See also:volume of which has the See also:special See also:title, Lehre vom Gelde and Geldumlaufe
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The principles of this work are for the most See also:part those of See also:Adam See also: Two points in particular seem deserving of See also:notice . ,Hufeland was the first among German economists to point out the profit of the entrepreneur as a distinct See also:species of See also:revenue with laws See also:peculiar to itself . He also tends towards, though he does not explicitly See also:state, the view that See also:rent is a See also:general See also:term applicable to all payments resulting from See also:differences of degree among productive forces of the same See also:order . Thus the See also:superior gain of a specially gifted workman or specially skilled employer is in See also:time assimilated to the See also:payment for a natural agency ofkmore than the minimum efficiency . See See also:Roscher, Geschichte der Nationalukonotnik in Deutschland, 654 662 . |
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