Josef Kaizl
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| Josef Kaizl | |
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Imperial Minister of Finance
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| In office 1898 – 1899 |
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Member of the Imperial Council
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| In office 1885 – 1887 |
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| In office 1891 – 1901 |
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| Born | June 18, 1854 Volyně |
| Died | August 19, 1901 Myškovice |
| Political party | Old Czech Party Czech Realist Party Young Czech Party |
| Occupation | Professor, Politician |
Josef Kaizl (1854 - 1901) was a Czech professor and politician in the Austria-Hungary Empire. He was a member of the Imperial Council, and finance minister between 1898 and 1899.
Kaizl studied law at the Charles University in Prague, and economics at University of Strasbourg, where he studied under Gustav von Schmoller and Georg Friedrich Knapp. He started teaching political economy at the Charles University in 1879, becoming a full professor in 1883, in the then Czech section of the university. He was closely associated with Jan Gebauer and Tomáš Masaryk, who later became the first president of the Czechoslovak Republic.
In 1885, Kaizl would be elected to the Imperial Council for the Old Czechs, but returned his seat in 1887. He then worked with Masaryk on the expanding the Realist philosophical movement. They would join the Young Czechs in 1890. In 1891 and 1895, the Young Czechs were highly successful in elections; this political power was transfered in Kaizl receiving the post of finance minister in the Count Thun government, the highest political position a Czech would ever come to hold in Austria-Hungary.
