Heinrich Herkner
Heinrich Herkner (27 June 1863 – 27 May 1932) was a German economist.
Herkner was born in Liberec (German: Reichenberg), Bohemia and died in Berlin, Germany.
Herkner taught as a professor at the universities of Freiburg (1890-1892), Karlsruhe (1892-1898), and Zürich (1898-1907), as well as the Technical University (1907-1913) and Frederick William University (1913-1932) of Berlin.
Herkner was originally a Marxist who later evolved towards realist views. Alexandra Kollontai went to Zürich to study under him, but found he had become a “revisionist” and spent much of her time at the university contesting his views.[1]
He was a founding member of the German Society for Sociology and along with Max Weber, Ferdinand Tönnies and Georg Simmel on its first board.
Works
- Die oberelsässische Baumwollenindustrie und ihre Arbeiter. Auf Grund der Thatsachen dargestellt, 1887
- Die soziale Reform als Gebot des wirtschaftlichen Fortschritts, 1891
- Die Arbeiterfrage, 1894
- Der Kampf um das sittliche Werturteil in der Nationalökonomie, in: Schmollers Jb. f. Gesetzgebung, Verw. u. Volkswirtschaft im Dt. Reiche 36 (1912), 515-555
- Krieg und Volkswirtschaft, 1915
- Deutschland und Deutsch-Österreich, 1919
- Liberalismus und Nationalismus 1848-1890, 1930