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August Franz Ludwig Maria, Baron von Haxthausen-Abbenburg (February 3, 1792, in Bökendorf, Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn – December 31, 1866, in Hanover) was a German agricultural scientist, economist, lawyer, writer, and collector of folk songs, best known for his account of conditions in Russia as revealed by his 1843 visit.
Haxthausen blamed this theory on the Enlightenment, which he condemned as a 'pseudo-philosophy' and a 'one-sided paper theory'.21 18th-century thinkers, he claimed, deified reason at the expense of 17 August von Haxthausen, 'Die Kirche und ihre Institutionen im Verhaltnis zu den Tendenzen der Zeit' (Der Katholik, XXI, Mainz, 1826). 18 Ibid., pp ...
from a German Romantic, August Freiherr von Haxthausen (1792-I866), who travelled through Russia in I843-4 at the invitation of Czar Nicholas I, and published his Studien iiber die inneren Zustdnde Rufilands in I846.2 Haxthausen's theory 1 See, for instance, I. Berlin, 'A remarkable decade', in his Russian thinkers (Harmondsworth, 1978),
In the 1840s the German Romantic August von Haxthausen originated the idea, in a book reporting on his travels through Russia, that collective ownership of land and other assets was integral to the traditional culture of the Russian rural commune.
Apr 8, 2021 · Baron August von Haxthausen (1792-1866) was an agricultural scientist, lawyer, writer, and economist. As a young man, Haxthausen joined the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleonic France. A conservative reformer, he opposed French-style revolution and believed in cooperation, not conflict, between the classes.
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Nov 4, 2017 · Transcaucasia, Sketches of the Nations and Races between the Black Sea and the Caspian, by Baron August von Haxthausen (London, 1854), in 495 searchable and bookmarked pdf pages, translated into English by John Edward Taylor. Economist, lawyer, writer, and collector of folktales, von Haxthausen was in the Caucaus in the 1840s.
August von Haxthausen, who visited Russia in 1-843, thought. the village commune held t.he key to freeing the serfs. He felt that since serfdom had been built up s1ow1y in Russia it should be abol-ished in stages.
