About Carl Brinkmann
Lived 1885 – 1954 (aged 69). Carl Brinkmann was a German economist, economic historian, historian, sociologist, university teacher and political economist.
Carl Brinkmann (19 March 1885 – 20 May 1954) was a German sociologist and economist who focused on socioeconomics and the history of political economy.
Brinkmann was born in Tilsit, East Prussia, now in Kaliningrad, and died in Oberstdorf, Allgäu. In 1904 he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at The Queen's College, Oxford. He taught as a professor at the Heidelberg University (1923), Berlin University (1942), and Tübingen University (1946).
Literary works Weltpolitik und Weltwirtschaft im 19. Jahrhundert, 1921 Englische Geschichte, 1815–1914, 21936 Wirtschaftsformen und Lebensformen, 1944 Soziologische Theorie der Revolution, 1948 Wirtschaftstheorie, 1948
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Who was Carl Brinkmann?
German historian (1885-1954)
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Carl Brinkmann was born on 19 March 1885 in Sovetsk.
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Carl Brinkmann died on 20 May 1954 in Oberstdorf.
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Carl Brinkmann was an economist, economic historian, historian, sociologist, university teacher and political economist.
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Carl Brinkmann was German.
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