Background
KNIES, Karl was born in 1821 in Marburg, Germany.
KNIES, Karl was born in 1821 in Marburg, Germany.
Dr University Marburg, 1846.
Historical economist, whose early political involvement forced his exile in Switzerland after 1848. He returned to academic success at Freiburg and Heidelberg. His economics was essentially nationalistic and a source of his objection to the cosmopolitanism of the classical school.
Knies was an able teacher and his Heidelberg seminar achieved a pre-eminent position in Austro-German economics. Docent, University Marburg, 1846. Professor Politics, University Freiburg, 1855.
Director, Board Education, Baden, 1862-1865. Professor, University Heidelberg, 1865-1896.
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In 1861 Baden’s Catholic population elected him a deputy to the second chamber.
He distinguished himself as a foe both of clericalism and of the still existing feudal laws which hampered freedom of economic activity.