Grünberg’s doctoral thesis drew on the younger Historical School of economics

Evidence

The thesis had been inspired by Georg Friedrich Knapp, a representative of the younger Historical School, with whom he had studied from 1890 to 1893 as a graduate student. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 77

Categorization

• XREF: The younger Historical School’s influence on the Institute’s first director prefigures its empirical, historically-grounded orientation versus abstract theory. — connects to: Grünberg’s thousand-page thesis examined peasant emancipation in Central Europe — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 77

Broader Connections

• Grünberg’s thousand-page thesis examined peasant emancipation in Central Europe #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 77