Eberhard Gothein
Eberhard H. Gothein (29 October 1853 in
Neumarkt – 13 November 1923 in
Berlin) was a German economist and historian. Gothein was a professor at
University of Karlsruhe (1885),
University of Bonn (1890), and
Heidelberg University (1904). He was a representative of the liberal-positivist opposition against the
Prussian historical school of Treitschke and Sybel, which was prevalent in Germany. Gothein was the author of valuable works on cultural and economic history, primarily of the 15th to 17th centuries. Furthermore, he was one of the founding fathers of the
University of Mannheim's predecessor, the ''Handelshochschule Mannheim''.
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