FOLIO I · DENKER
Born on 8 February 1845 in Jauernig (Austrian Silesia, today Javorník-Janský Vrch in the Czech Republic), into a family of clothmakers and officials.[1]
Secretary of the Austrian commission at the 1867 Paris World Exposition.[1]
Habilitation as a Privatdozent in selected areas of political economy at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna.[1]
Worked as secretary of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce and Trade.[1]
Habilitation as a Privatdozent in economics and public finance at the University of Vienna.[1]
Secretary in the administration of the Kaiser Ferdinand Northern Railway (about six years).[1]
Publication of the two-volume work “Die Verkehrsmittel in Volks- und Staatswirtschaft” (The Means of Transport in National and State Economy).[1]
Associate professor at the German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague.[1]
Full professor of political economy at the German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague.[1]
Publication of one of his principal works, in which Sax set out his independent position within the Austrian School and applied the law of value to economic action on any scale.
As a professor in Prague, Sax began to support and further develop the subjectivist theory of value and methodological individualism.[1]
Rector of the German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague during the 1892/93 academic year.[1]
A few years later, Sax distanced himself from the Austrian School and, disappointed, withdrew from university life.
Gave up teaching owing to increasing hearing loss; withdrew from university life.[1]
Publication of “Der Kapitalzins” (Interest on Capital); evidence of the productive literary output he developed in the last decade of his life.[1]
After a pause of almost twenty years, Sax took up his research again and, in the last decade of his life, developed an unusually productive literary output.
In 1894 he became, as Emil Sax's successor, associate professor at the German University in Prague.
Bevor Sax sich Menger anschloss, war er „mehr dessen Konkurrent als dessen Mitstreiter“ in der österreichischen Nationalökonomie; später wurde er zum Mitstreiter im Methodenstreit, grenzte sich aber wenige Jahre nach 1887 von der Wiener Schule wieder ab.
In the history-of-economic-thought literature on the Viennese theory of taxation, he is treated, together with Emil Sax, as one of the two outstanding Austrian theorists of taxation; both developed in parallel a public finance grounded in marginal utility.[2]
Emil Sax in the context of the School as a whole — five generations, their teacher-student lineages, circles and collegial ties.
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