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Died April 18, 1926, Berlin, Germany Books A History of Banking in all the Leading Nations Similar People William Graham Sumner, Henry Dunning Macleod, Byron Edmund Walker | ||
Richard van der Borght (born 18 January 1861 in Potsdam; died 18 April 1926 in Berlin) was a German academic economist and statistician.
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Life
After studying first Theology and then Politics in Halle, Van der Borght in 1884 became syndic of the Chamber of Commerce in Aachen. From 1892 to 1900 he held the Chair of National Economics at the Technischen Hochschule Aachen. For two years (1898-1900) he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives. In 1901 he became a privy councillor, and from 1904 to 1912 served as Chairman of the Kaiserliches Statistisches Amt (Imperial Office of Statistics) in Berlin.
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