Roscher, WILHELM

Roscher, WILHELM, the most eminent exponent of the historical school of Political Economy (q.v.) in Germany, was born at Hanover on 21st October 1817. He studied at Göttingen and Berlin, and in 1843 was appointed professor of Political Economy at Göttingen, but in 1848 was called to fill the corresponding chair at Leipzig. His principal books are System der Volkswirtschaft (4 vols. 1854-86; 18th ed. 1887; 21st ed. 1894; Eng. trans. 2 vols. Chicago, 1879), Die Nationalökonomie des Ackerbaues (10th ed. 1882), Grundlagen der Nationalökonomie (17th ed. 1884), Geschichte der Nationalökonomie in Deutschland (1874), Zur Geschichte der englischen Volkswirtschaftslehre (1851-52), Kolonien, Kolonialpolitik und Auswanderung (3d ed. 1885). He died 3d June 1894.