Ignaz Jastrow

Ignaz Jastrow (September 13, 1856, Nakel - May 2, 1937, Berlin) was a German economist and historian.

Ignaz Jastrow

Biography

He was educated at the universities of Breslau, Berlin, and Göttingen. He became a university docent at Berlin in 1885 and was Leopold von Ranke's assistant in historical work. In 1904 he pursued industrial investigations in the United States, and in 1905 became professor of Administrative Science at Berlin. His daughter, Elisabeth Jastrow, was a classical archaeologist.

Works

• Die Volkszahl deutscher Städte zu Ende des Mittelalters und zu Beginn der Neuzeit. 1886.[1]
• Geschichte des deutschen Einheitstraumes und seiner Erfüllung (1884; fourth edition, 1891)
• Socialliberal (1893, second edition, 1894)
• Die Einrichtung von Arbeitsnachweisverbänden (second edition, 1900)
• Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Hohenstaufen (1879-1901), with George Winter
• Kaufmannsbildung und Hochschulbildung (1907)
• Bürgertum und Staatsverwaltung (1907)
• Handelshochschulen (1909)
• Gedächtnisrede auf Dunker (1911)
• Arbeiterschutz (1912)
• Geld und Kredit (1914)

He edited the Jahresberichte der Geschichtswissenschaft (1881–94); Sociale Praxis (1895–97); Das Gewerbegericht (1896 et seq.); and Der Arbeitsmarkt (1897 et seq.).

Notes

1. Arthur William Holland (1910), "Germany: Bibliography of German History", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, OCLC 14782424

References

• Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Jastrow, Ignaz" . Encyclopedia Americana.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1915). "Jastrow, Ignaz". New International Encyclopedia. 12 (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. p. 603.

External links

• Newspaper clippings about Ignaz Jastrow in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW