Author: Sartorius, Georg Friedrich Christoph [1765-1828], Freiherr von Waltershausen
Title: Ueber die Gefahren, welche Deutschland bedrohen : und die Mittel, ihnen mit Glück zu begegnen / von Georg Sartorius
Description: Göttingen, Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1820. Cloth.. 21x12cm, viii,487,[1]pp, Later [recent] blind binder's cloth.. Minor wear. Foxed. A pinhole to titlepage. VG. ¶ Reference: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature, no. 22790.32. ["Sartorius was a German research historian, economist and professor at Gö ttingen University. Sartorius was born in Kassel, where he attended gymnasium. Then he studied theology and also orientalism (read by Michaeli)in Göttingen. Later he changed to history and started working at the Library there. He was appointed as professor in history in 1802. His major work was his monograph Geschichte des Hanseatischen Bundes. (engl.: History of the Hanseatic League.) published in three volumes 1802-1808. His research on this topic was the first modern work on the Hanseatic League. A second edition prepared by him was published post mortem in 1830.He made a historical study of the rule of the Ostrogoths in Italy while professor at Göttingen (Versuch iiber die Regierung der Ostgothen wabrend ihrer Herrschaft in Italien; Hamburg, 1811), an extremely painstaking treatise on Ostrogothic administration, chiefly compiled from the letters of Cassiodorus. He is also known as translator and popularizer of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. As an economist he gave lectures on taxation" - wikipedia].

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