Ignaz Jastrow


Ignaz Jastrow was a German economist and historian.

Biography

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. His daughter, Elisabeth Jastrow, was a classical archaeologist.

Works

He edited the Jahresberichte der Geschichtswissenschaft ; Sociale Praxis ; Das Gewerbegericht ; and Der Arbeitsmarkt.