Studied law at the universities of Vienna and Prague and earned his doctorate in 1886.[1]
Joined the Prague Chamber of Commerce in 1889 as an official (Konzipist, a junior administrative rank).[1]
Promoted to vice-secretary of the Prague Chamber of Commerce in 1894.[1]
Promoted to second secretary of the Prague Chamber of Commerce in 1898.[1]
Worked as a jurist and k. k. Regierungsrat (Imperial-Royal government counsellor) in Vienna and built one of the first calculating machines.
Had to take early retirement in 1903 because of an illness and returned to Olešnice; later moved back to Vienna.[1]
Published the extensive work "Zur Lehre von den Bedürfnissen" (On the Theory of Needs; 1907), in which he defined 29 categories of needs and demonstrated for the first time that subjective utility is not measurable.[1]
Cuhels Bedürfnistheorie wird laut Liberpedia von Lionel Robbins rezipiert (Ordinalnutzentheorie-Linie).[1]
Franz Cuhel in the context of the School as a whole — five generations, their teacher-student lineages, circles and collegial ties.
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