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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.
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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. (2018). Knies, Karl Gustav Adolf (1821–1898). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1247
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