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Hermann Heinrich Gossen

1810 - 1858

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Hermann Heinrich Gossen (7 September 1810 – 13 February 1858) was a German economist who is often regarded as the first to elaborate, in detail, a general theory of marginal utility. Prior to Gossen, a number of economic theorists, including Gabriel Cramer, Daniel Bernoulli, William Forster Lloyd, Nassau William Senior, and Jules Dupuit had employed or asserted the significance of some notion of marginal utility. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Heinrich Gossen has received more than 114,887 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Hermann Heinrich Gossen is the 98th most popular economist (down from 91st in 2019), the 1,111th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,029th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Hermann Heinrich Gossen ranks 98 out of 414. Before him are Claudia Goldin, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, George Akerlof, Jacques Attali, Dale T. Mortensen, and Gottfried Feder. After him are Gérard Debreu, Kristalina Georgieva, Lorenz von Stein, Oskar Morgenstern, Bingu wa Mutharika, and Douglas McGregor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Hermann Heinrich Gossen ranks 18. Before him are Ernst Kummer, Nikolay Pirogov, Otto Nicolai, Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg, and Fanny Elssler. After him are Francesco Maria Piave, Elizabeth Gaskell, Karl Richard Lepsius, Henri Victor Regnault, Asa Gray, and Ferenc Erkel. Among people deceased in 1858, Hermann Heinrich Gossen ranks 16. Before him are John Snow, Ary Scheffer, Aimé Bonpland, Dred Scott, Joseph Karl Stieler, and Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov. After him are Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Harriet Taylor Mill, Princess Margaretha of Saxony, and Carl Gustaf Mosander.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Heinrich Gossen ranks 1,111 out of 7,253. Before him are Lothar von Richthofen (1894), Gottfried Feder (1883), Henry Suso (1295), Petrus Apianus (1495), Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse (1777), and Prince Henry of Prussia (1862). After him are Lale Andersen (1905), Gerhard Herzberg (1904), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), Walther Flemming (1843), Killing of Peter Fechter (1944), and Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria (1831).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Hermann Heinrich Gossen ranks 11. Before him are Werner Sombart (1863), Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783), Eugen Dühring (1833), Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Alfred Weber (1868), and Gottfried Feder (1883). After him are Lorenz von Stein (1815), Oskar Morgenstern (1902), Adolph Wagner (1835), Ernest Mandel (1923), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949), and Gustav von Schmoller (1838).

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