Georg Friedrich Sartorius (after 1827 Freiherr von Waltershausen; 25 August 1765

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– 24 August 1828

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) was a German research historian, economist and professor at

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Biography

Sartorius was born in

, where he attended gymnasium. Then he studied

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and also

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(read by Michaeli) in Göttingen. Later he changed to history and started working at the

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there. He was appointed as professor in history in 1802. His major work was his monograph ''Geschichte des Hanseatischen Bundes.'' (engl.: ''History of the Hanseatic League.'') published in three volumes 1802-1808. His research on this topic was the first modern work on the

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. A second edition prepared by him was published post mortem in 1830. He made a historical study of the rule of the

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in Italy while professor at Göttingen (; Hamburg, 1811), an extremely painstaking treatise on Ostrogothic administration, chiefly compiled from the letters of

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''Italy and Her Invaders: The Ostrogothic invasion, 476-535''
(1885) Vol.3, p.286 He is also known as translator and popularizer of

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's ''

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''. As an economist he gave lectures on

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was

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of his second son, the geologist Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen and grandfather of

August Sartorius von Waltershausen August Sartorius Freiherr von Waltershausen (1852–1938) was a German economist. Biography He was born in Göttingen, the son of Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen. He was educated in the University of Göttingen The University of Göttin ...

, a well known economist who studied the American economy.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sartorius, Georg Friedrich 19th-century German historians German economists Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Academic staff of the University of Göttingen 1765 births 1828 deaths German male non-fiction writers