FOLIO I · THINKER · GEN. 03 · N° 030

Ewald Schams

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Portrait of Ewald Schams
FOL. 03 · N° 030 · Ewald Schams
BIOGRAPHY

Life and Work

Schams studied in Graz under Joseph A. Schumpeter and worked in Vienna as a senior official (Sektionsrat) in the Ministry of Education. In addition he taught as a Privatdozent (unsalaried lecturer) at the Technical University in Vienna and was a regular participant in the Mises private seminar. Schams, in Hayek's estimation a "taciturn, upright figure reminiscent of an officer" (Leube 1998, p. 319), was an excellent connoisseur of the Lausanne School around Léon Walras, was mathematically skilled and worked above all on questions of methodology and epistemology. After the Anschluss he stayed in the country and came to terms with the National Socialist regime. This was also the reason why, after the war, he was not able to return to the Technical University until 1947.
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Born
17. Oktober 1889
Died
1. Januar 1955
Generation
Generation 3
Life stations

Stations

  1. 1889
    1889
    Birth
    Birth— approximate

    Born on 17 October 1889.[2]

  2. 1908
    1908
    Studies · Graz
    Studies under Schumpeter in Graz— inferred

    Studied in Graz under Joseph A. Schumpeter.[2]

  3. 1920
    1920
    Career · Wien
    Sektionsrat at the Ministry of Education— inferred

    Worked in Vienna as Sektionsrat (ministerial counsellor) at the Ministry of Education and taught on the side as a Privatdozent at the Technical University in Vienna.[2]

  4. 1920
    1920
    Conference · Wien
    Mises Private Seminar— inferred

    Regular participant in Mises's private seminar in Vienna; an outstanding expert on the Lausanne School around Léon Walras, mathematically adept, he worked above all on methodology and epistemology.[2]

  5. 1920
    1920
    Academic post · Wien
    Privatdozent at the Technical University in Vienna— inferred

    Privatdozent at the Technical University in Vienna.[2]

  6. 1926
    1926
    Publication
    "Friedrich Freiherr von Wieser und sein Werk" (Friedrich Freiherr von Wieser and His Work)— approximate

    Publication of the essay "Friedrich Freiherr von Wieser und sein Werk" (Friedrich Freiherr von Wieser and His Work) in the Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft.[3]

  7. 1938
    1938
    Other · Wien
    Remaining after the Anschluss— approximate

    After the Anschluss, Schams remained in the country and came to terms with the National Socialist regime.[2]

  8. 1947
    1947
    Academic post · Wien
    Return to the Technical University

    Because of his stance under the Nazi regime, he did not return to the Technical University in Vienna until 1947.[2]

  9. 1955
    1955
    Death
    Death

    Died in 1955.[2]

Relationships

Influences

Influenced by · 2
  1. —
    —
    Teacher

    Studied in Graz under Joseph A. Schumpeter.[2]

  2. —
    —
    Academic influence
    Léon Walras⁦(1834–1910)⁩ · Lausanner Schule

    Schams was an expert on, and an Austrian transmitter of, the Lausanne School around Léon Walras; his work is regarded as a bridge between the Austrian School and the Lausanne School.[1]

Private seminar, colleagues, Mont Pèlerin · 2
  1. ⁦1920–1934⁩
    ⁦1920–1934⁩
    Private seminar

    Regular participant in the Mises-Privatseminar in Vienna.[1]

  2. —
    —
    Colleague

    Wikiberal names Rosenstein-Rodan as a contemporary with similar methodological approaches in the Viennese milieu of mathematical economics.[2]

Ewald Schams in the context of the School as a whole: five generations, their teacher-student lineages, circles and collegial ties.

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Topography

Places of Activity

ARTICLES · 3 CATALOGUED

Essays, Reviews, Lectures

1920s
1926
37 yrs.
Friedrich Freiherr von Wieser und sein Werk
Article
OriginalGerman
1928
39 yrs.
Zur Geschichte und Beurteilung der exakten Denkformen in den Sozialwissenschaften
Article
OriginalGerman
1930s
1932
43 yrs.
Komparative Statik
Article
OriginalGerman
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