The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Knapp, George Friedrich

KNAPP, George Friedrich, German economist and educator: b. Giessen, 7 March 1842. He studied in Munich, Berlin and Göttingen, and in 1867 became director of the Statistical Bureau of Leipzig. Two years later he was appointed assistant professor of economics and statistics in the University of Leipzig and in 1874 professor of political economy in Strassburg University. His writings dealing chiefly with population and agricultural topics include ‘Ueber die Ermittelung der Sterblichkeit’ (1868); ‘Die Sterblichkeit der Sachsen’ (1869); ‘Theorie des Bewölkerungswechsels’ (1874); ‘Die Bauernbefreiung und der Ursprung der Landarbeiter in den alteren Teilen Preussens’ (1887); ‘Die Landarbeiter in Knechtschaft und Freiheit’ (1891); ‘Grundherrschaft und Rittergut’ (1897). In 1886 he founded the periodical Abhandlungen aus dem staatswissenschaftlichen Seminar zu Strassburg.