Heinrich Pesch, SJ, 1854–1926: Social Economist in a Cassock

Abstract

In all probability, there are today only four persons — all social scientists — who have personally known Father Heinrich Pesch, the eminent German economist of the Jesuit Order, viz., Oswald von Nell‐Breuning, SJ, who, 93 years old, still is amazingly active as lecturer and writer, the Rev. Dr. mult. L. H. Adolf Geck (1898), retired, yet still engaged in social research, Rev. Joh. Messner (1891), Professor Emeritus of the University of Vienna, whom illness has recently incapacitated, and the author of this article (1900), who thinks himself fortunate to have gained — during his years of study at the University of Berlin — Pesch's paternal friendship.

Citation

Mueller, F.H. (1984), "Heinrich Pesch, SJ, 1854–1926: Social Economist in a Cassock", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 11 No. 5, pp. 62-65. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013972