Brentano

Brentano, LUJO, political economist, was born at Aschaffenburg, in Bavaria, 18th December 1844. He studied at Dublin, and at four German universities; and after attaining a post in the royal statistical seminary in Berlin, went to England to study the condition of the working-classes, and especially trades' associations and unions. The outcome of this was his work On the History and Development of English Guilds (Lond. 1870); Die Arbeitergilden der Gegenwart (2 vols. Leip. 1871-72). He has been professor at Breslau (1873), Strasburg, Vienna, Leipzig, Munich (1891). He supports the 'Socialists of the chair' (Kathedersozialisten) against the German free-trade school, and has written works on wages (1877), labour in relation to land (1877), and compulsory insurance for workmen (1881), on the English Chartists, on the Christian Socialist movement in England (2d ed. Leip. 1883), and numerous polemical pamphlets.