Ignaz Jastrow
Ignaz Jastrow (13 September 1856, Nakel - 2 May 1937, Berlin) was a German economist and historian.
Ignaz Jastrow (13 September 1856, Nakel - 2 May 1937, Berlin) was a German economist and historian.
He was educated at the universities of Breslau, Berlin, and Göttingen. He became a university docent at Berlin in 1885 and was Leopold von Ranke's assistant in historical work. In 1904 he pursued industrial investigations in the United States, and in 1905 became professor of Administrative Science at Berlin. One daughter, Elisabeth Jastrow, was a classical archaeologist; the other Beate Jastrow Hahn, was an accomplished horticulturalist and author of 5 books. His granddaughter, Cornelia Oberlander was a highly respected landscape architect.
He edited the Jahresberichte der Geschichtswissenschaft (1881–94); Sociale Praxis (1895–97); Das Gewerbegericht (1896 et seq.); and Der Arbeitsmarkt (1897 et seq.).
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1915). "Jastrow, Ignaz". New International Encyclopedia . Vol. 12 (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. p. 603.
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