Ignaz Jastrow

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Ignaz Jastrow (September 13, 1856 - May 2, 1937 in Berlin) was a German economist and historian, born in Nakel and 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. He edited the Jahresberichte der Geschichtswissenschaft (1881-94); Sociale Praxis (1895-97); Das Gewerbegericht (1896 et seq.); Der Arbeitsmarkt (1897 et seq.); and wrote many works, amongst them are:

• 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)

In 1904 he pursued industrial investigations in the United States, and in 1905 became professor of administrative science at Berlin.

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