Charlotte Leubuscher
Charlotte Leubuscher (born 24 July 1888 in Jena; died 2 June 1961 in London) was a German-British social scientist and economist.[1]
Biography
Born as the daughter of the Privy Medical Councillor Georg Leubuscher, she attended the Gymnasium Bernhardinum in Meiningen, where she was the first girl ever to graduate from high school. She then studied economics, history, philosophy and law in Cambridge, Giessen, Munich and Berlin. In 1913 she received her doctorate as Dr. phil. In 1921 she habilitated with the thesis "Socialism and Socialization in England" under Heinrich Herkner at the University of Berlin. Her habilitation was the third by a woman and the first outside the natural sciences there. In 1923 she received a lectureship in foreign social policy, especially of England and Russia, at the University of Göttingen. In 1924 she moved to the University of Berlin, where she was appointed associate professor in 1929.
Leubuscher was half-Jewish and in 1933 her teaching license was revoked by the Nazi government. She emigrated to England and taught at various universities, including Cambridge, Manchester and the London School of Economics. There she continued her work on colonial economics. Leubuscher was one of the first economists to focus on development economics. Her archive is located in the Staatsarchiv Meiningen.
Charlotte Leubuscher died in 1961 at the age of almost 73 years in London. She was buried in the Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Church in Berlin-Kreuzberg, where her grandfather Rudolf Leubuscher (1821–1861) had also found his final resting place a century earlier. Both graves have been preserved.[2]
Selected publications
- Sozialismus und Sozialisierung in England [Socialism and Socialization in England] (1921)
- Ziele und Mittel der Handelspolitik in den britischen Dominions [Aims and Means of Trade Policy in the British Dominions] (1926)
- Liberalismus und Protektionismus in der englischen Wirtschaftspolitik seit dem Kriege (1927 [Liberalism and Protectionism in English Economic Policy since the War] (1927)
References
- Robert Volz: Reichshandbuch der deutschen Gesellschaft. Das Handbuch der Persönlichkeiten in Wort und Bild. Band 2: L–Z, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931. p1108.
- Klemens Wittebur: Die Deutsche Soziologie im Exil. 1933–1945, Münster; Hamburg: Lit., 1991 (dissertation from 1989), p. 67 f.
- Elisabeth Dickmann, Eva Schöck-Quinteros (eds.): Zuflucht Exil? Jüdische Wissenschaftlerinnen in der Emigration [Jewish Female Scientists in Emigration] 1933 to 1945 [Publication Series of the Hedwig Hintze Institute Bremen, Vol. 9], 2005.
- Philine Scholze: Charlotte Leubuscher (1888–1961). Eine Staatswissenschaftlerin der ersten Wissenschaftlerinnengeneration. [A political scientist of the first generation of female scientists] Magisterarbeit Berlin (HU) 1999.
- Theresa Wobbe: Leubuscher, Charlotte Anna Pauline. In: Harald Hagemann, Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Emigration nach 1933. Band 2: Leichter–Zweig. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X, pp. 376–378.
External links
- Literature by and about Charlotte Leubuscher in the German National Library catalogue
- Leubuscher, Charlotte, Index entry: German Biography, https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd116957689.html [August 15, 2017]
- http://uwind.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/de/fm13-dab-detail/23
References
- ^ Dimand, Robert W.; Dimand, Mary Ann; Forget, Evelyn L., eds. (2000). A biographical dictionary of women economists. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar. ISBN 978-1-85278-964-0.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexikon Berliner Begräbnisstätten. Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1, p. 233.