Johannes Conrad

Johannes Conrad
Johannes Conrad (1839-1915)
Born	28 February 1839 Borkau, West Prussia
Died	25 April 1915 (1915-04-26) (aged 76) Halle (Saale), Germany
Nationality	German
Fields	Economist
Institutions	University of Halle University of Jena
Alma mater	University of Jena University of Berlin
Doctoral advisor	Bruno Hildebrand
Doctoral students	Ernest L. Bogart Jeremiah Jenks Frank Fetter Edmund J. James Hermann Paasche Arthur Ruppin
Other notable students	Henry C. Taylor Richard T. Ely Wesley Clair Mitchell Simon N. Patten Joseph F. Johnson
Known for	Political economics

Johannes Conrad (born 28 February 1839 in West Prussia) was a German political economist. Johannes Conrad was a Professor of economics in Halle (Saale), Prussian Germany. He was a co-founder (with Gustav von Schmoller) of the important conservative Verein für Sozialpolitik in 1872. Late in his career, in 1911, he became the director of the newly established Institute for Co-operative Studies at the University of Halle. Conrad was an expert in political economy (Nationalökonomie) and became the editor of the influential Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik in 1870.

Conrad's father was landowner in west Prussia. In the early days, Conrad dedicated himself to agriculture, studied on that, by physical suffering to giving the practical activity up in a forced manner, to natural sciences, finally in Berlin and Jena political sciences. After completion of his studies he made larger journeys in Italy, England, France, Poland, Hungary, he achieved habilitation, in 1868 he became private lecturer in Jena, 1870 he was appointed extraordinary professor and in the same year he was appointed full professor.

From 1851 to 1857 he attended grammar school in Gdansk, but due to serious illness and he prematurely had to leave school. Beginning 1861, he was with the University of Berlin in order to study natural sciences. In 1862, Conrad moved on to the University of Jena, where he completed his 1864 doctoral thesis and his 1868 habilitation thesis entitled, Die Statistik der landwirtschaftlichen Produktion. Kritik ihrer bisherigen Leistungen, sowie Vorschläge zu ihrer Förderung. (The statistics of agricultural production . Criticism of their performance, as well as proposals for their promotion). A highly successful and fast career followed. He obtained his habilitation in 1868 in Jena, and in 1870, Conrad became Adjunct Professor at Jena. Two years later he was appointed professor at the University of Halle, as successor to the famous Gustav Schmoller. He refused an offer to work at the University of Göttingen, remaining at the University of Halle until the end of life.