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Lujo Brentano

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Lujo Brentano
Born(1844-12-18)18 December 1844
Aschaffenburg, Kingdom of Bavaria
Died9 September 1931(1931-09-09) (aged 86)
Munich, Weimar Germany
EducationTrinity College Dublin
Heidelberg University (Dr. iur.)
University of Göttingen (Dr. rer. pol.)
Scientific career
FieldsEconomist
WorkplacesRoyal University of Wrocław
Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin
University of Vienna
Leipzig University
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Johann von Helferich [da] (Ph.D. advisor)
Adolph Wagner (Dr. phil. hab. advisor)
Doctoral students
Hans Ehrenberg
Tokuzō Fukuda
Werner Hegemann
Theodor Heuss
Robert René Kuczynski
Arthur Salz
Other notable students
Oswald Spengler

Lujo Brentano[1] (/brɛnˈtɑːnoʊ/; German: [bʁɛnˈtaːno]; 18 December 1844 – 9 September 1931) was a German economist and social reformer.

Biography

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Lujo Brentano, born in Aschaffenburg into a German Catholic intellectual family (originally of Italian descent),[2] attended school in Augsburg and Aschaffenburg. He studied at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Münster, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Heidelberg University (doctorate in law), the University of Würzburg, the University of Göttingen (doctorate in economics), and Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin (habilitation in economics, 1871).

He was a professor of economics and state sciences at the University of Breslau, the University of Strasbourg, the University of Vienna, Leipzig University, and most importantly, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (1891–1914). With Ernst Engel, the statistician, he made an investigation of the English trade unions.[3]

In 1872, he became involved in an extended dispute with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Brentano accused Marx of falsifying a quotation from an 1863 speech by William Ewart Gladstone.[4]

In 1914, he signed the Manifesto of the Ninety-Three. After the revolution of November 1918, Brentano served in minister-president Kurt Eisner's government of the People's State of Bavaria as People's Commissar for Trade and Industry (Volkskommissar für Handel und Industrie) on 7 December 1918. He requested dismissal on 13 December and, after repeating his request, resigned on 16 December (a tenure of nine calendar days).

Brentano died in Munich in 1931, aged 86.

Legacy

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Lujo Brentano in 1927

Brentano was a Kathedersozialist, a professor advocating social reform, and a founding member of the Verein für Socialpolitik. He influenced the social market economy and many Germans who were leaders immediately after the end of World War II. He also influenced later economists, such as his doctoral student Arthur Salz.

Bibliography

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  • Brentano, Lujo (1871–72). Die Arbeitergilden der Gegenwart. 2 vols., Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot. (English: On the History and Development of Gilds and the Origins of Trade Unions. 1870.)
  • Brentano, Lujo (1901). Ethik und Volkswirtschaft in der Geschichte. November 1901. München: Wolf.
  • Brentano, Lujo (1910). "The Doctrine of Malthus and the Increase of Population During the Last Decades." Economic Journal vol. 20(79), pp. 371–93.
  • Brentano, Lujo (1923). Der wirtschaftende Mensch in der Geschichte. Leipzig: Meiner. Reprint Marburg: Metropolis, 200ß.
  • Brentano, Lujo (1924). Wege zur Verständigung - Der Judenhass. Berlin, Philo Verlag und Buchhandlung
  • Brentano, Lujo (1927–29). Eine Geschichte der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung Englands. 4 vols., Jena: Gustav Fischer.
  • Brentano, Lujo (1929). Das Wirtschaftsleben der antiken Welt. Jena: Fischer.
  • Brentano, Lujo (1931). Mein Leben im Kampf um die soziale Entwicklung Deutschlands. Jena: Diederichs. Reprint Marburg: Metropolis, 2004.
  • Brentano, Lujo (1924). Konkrete Bedingungen der Volkswirtschaft. Leipzig: Meiner. 1924. Reprint Marburg: Metropols, 2003.
  • Brentano, Lujo (1877–1924). Der tätige Mensch und die Wissenschaft von der Wirtschaft. Reprint Marburg: Metropolis, 2006.
  • Essays, including "The Industrialist".[5]

References

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  1. ↑ 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 im Kampf um die soziale Entwicklung Deutschlands, p. 18.)
  2. ↑ Lujo Brentano was the son of the writer Christian Brentano, nephew of 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).
  3. ↑ Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Brentano, Lujo" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
  4. ↑ Friedrich Engels, In the Case of Brentano vs. Marx - Regarding Alleged Faslifications of Quotation: The Story and Documents (1891)
  5. ↑ Rudolf Steiner, Education as a Force for Social Change, Anthroposophic Press, 1997, Lecture 1 (Dornach / 9 August 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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