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Karl Knies was born in Marburg, the son of a police employee. He studied history and political science in Marburg, and in 1846 was appointed university lecturer. In 1855, after a break in his career due to political problems, he was appointed professor in Freiburg. He transferred to Heidelberg in 1865, where he taught until 1896.
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, 2008. Edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume
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Cohn, G. 1899. Prof. K. Knies (obituary). Economic Journal 9: 489.
Weber, M. 1903–6. Roscher und Knies und die logischen Probleme der historischen Nationalökonomie. Tübingen: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Wissenschaftslehre, 1922.
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Schefold, B. (2008). Knies, Karl Gustav Adolf (1821–1898). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_1247-2
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