Karl Joseph Wilhelm Braun other Karl Brauns">Carl Braun (obstetrician)">other Karl Brauns(20 March 1822 – 14 July 1893) was a German liberal politician and writer.

Biography

He was born at Hadamar, in the Duchy of Nassau, and studied classical

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and history at

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, and law and political economy at

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. He was president of the Nassau Chamber of Deputies from 1859 to 1866, and as the leader of the Liberals advocated

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and industrial freedom. He was one of the founders of the Volkswirtschaftlicher Kongress (“

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”), and was elected its permanent president in 1859. In 1863 he established the ''Vierteljahrschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Kulturgeschichte'' (“Quarterly for Political Economy and History”) , the representative organ of the Free-Trade Party of Germany . He edited this publication until 1887. As a deputy in the Reichstag, he was successively identified with the National Liberal, Secessionist, and German Liberal parties. He published a great variety of works, among which ''Bilder aus der deutschen Kleinstaaterei'' (“Vignettes from the times of the small German principalities,” 1881) is the most notable.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Braun, Karl 1822 births 1893 deaths People from Hadamar People from the Duchy of Nassau German Protestants National Liberal Party (Germany) politicians Liberal Union (Germany) politicians German Free-minded Party politicians Members of the 1st Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the 2nd Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the 3rd Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the 4th Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the 5th Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the 6th Reichstag of the German Empire