The Mercantile System, and Its Historical Significance

Excerpt from The Mercantile System, and Its Historical Significance: Illustrated Chiefly From Prussian History, Being a Chapter From the Studien Ueber Die Wirthschaftliche Die Friedrichs Des Grossen, 1884 Gustav Schmoller was born at Heilbronn in Wurtemberg on June 24, 1838. After studying at the University of Tubingen, he became in 1864 extraordinary, and in 1865 ordinary, Professor of the Political Sciences (Staatswissenschaften) at the University of Halle. In 1872 he was appointed Professor at the reorganised University of Strassburg, and in 1882 was summoned to succeed Adolf Held at the University of Berlin. In 1887 he was elected a Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, and also appointed Historiographer for Brandenburg.