ECONOMIST

Hermann Heinrich Gossen

1810 - 1858

Photo of Hermann Heinrich Gossen

Icon of person Hermann Heinrich Gossen

Hermann Heinrich Gossen (7 September 1810 – 13 February 1858) was a German economist who is often regarded as the first to elaborate, in detail, a general theory of marginal utility. Prior to Gossen, a number of economic theorists, including Gabriel Cramer, Daniel Bernoulli, William Forster Lloyd, Nassau William Senior, and Jules Dupuit had employed or asserted the significance of some notion of marginal utility. But Cramer, Bernoulli, and Dupuit had focussed upon specific problems, Lloyd had not presented any applications of theory, and if Senior provided a detailed elaboration of the general theory he had developed, he had done so in language that caused his applications of theory to be missed by most readers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Heinrich Gossen is the 124th most popular economist (down from 98th in 2019), the 1,326th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,111th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Economist.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Hermann Heinrich Gossen by language

Loading...

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Hermann Heinrich Gossen ranks 124 out of 414. Before him are Alfred Weber, Lorenz von Stein, Knut Wicksell, Thomas J. Sargent, James Mirrlees, and Douglas McGregor. After him are Jean Tirole, James Mill, Oskar Morgenstern, Gottfried Feder, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, and Clive Granger.

Most Popular Economists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Hermann Heinrich Gossen ranks 24. Before him are Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Karl Richard Lepsius, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Princess Pauline of Württemberg, and Nikolay Pirogov. After him are Elizabeth Gaskell, Francesco Maria Piave, Constant Troyon, Ferenc Erkel, Jules Perrot, and Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie. Among people deceased in 1858, Hermann Heinrich Gossen ranks 17. Before him are Matthew C. Perry, Anton Diabelli, Aimé Bonpland, Dred Scott, Joseph Karl Stieler, and Ary Scheffer. After him are Nimatullah Kassab, Princess Margaretha of Saxony, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, and Harriet Taylor Mill.

Others Born in 1810

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1858

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Heinrich Gossen ranks 1,326 out of 7,253. Before him are Sophia Eleonore of Saxony (1609), Fidelis of Sigmaringen (1577), Theodor Storm (1817), Theobald Boehm (1794), Barbara Blomberg (1527), and Gert Fröbe (1913). After him are Hermann Lotze (1817), Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833), Nena (1960), Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden (1704), Wilhelm Busch (1832), and Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Hermann Heinrich Gossen ranks 12. Before him are Albert O. Hirschman (1915), Eugen Dühring (1833), Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783), Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Alfred Weber (1868), and Lorenz von Stein (1815). After him are Oskar Morgenstern (1902), Gottfried Feder (1883), Adolph Wagner (1835), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949), Gustav von Schmoller (1838), and Ernest Mandel (1923).

German born Economists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous