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740 (Dissertatio exhibens sententias Romanorum ad œconomiam politicam pertinentes,, ). He probably did not remain long at, for or  after  we find him acting as  of  at the  and   in , where he continued till. During his stay there he an elementary  on  and  (Lehrbuch der Arith. u. Algeb., ), and made a journey to  to inspect the organization and conduct of   in. The results of his investigation were in  and  (Ueber technische Unterrichts-Anstalten). Soon after his return from he was made extraordinarius of  at the  of, and in  he was advanced to the rank of  in the. In appeared the first edition of his great  on, Staatswirthschaftliche Untersuchungen ( Researches). In he was made member of the. From onwards Hermann’s life was one of great and varied practical activity. From  he acted as inspector of   in, and made frequent journeys to  and  in order to  the methods there pursued. In the service of, to which he devoted himself, he rose gradually but rapidly. In he was placed on the  for  of  and  work; in  he was entrusted with the direction of the  of ; in  he was one of the  for the interior; in  he sat as member for  in the al  at. In this Hermann, with  and, was mainly instrumental in organizing the so-called “Great German” , and was selected as one of the  of their views at. Warmly supporting the (Zollverein), he acted in  as one of its commissioners at the great  exhibition at, and  an elaborate report on the. he was of the  of s at the similar exhibition at, and the report of its proceedings was drawn up by him. In he became  of  (Staatsrath im ordentlichen Dienst), the highest honour in the service to which he could attain. It is hardly surprising that in the midst of such varied and weighty practical occupations Hermann did not find time for carrying on systematically his work in the pure of. Yet the long series of reviews, mainly of works on subjects,  in the Münchener Gelehrte Anzeigen from  to, attest his unabated  and constant interest in  on its  side, while his more elaborate papers in Rau’s Archiv der politischen Oekonomie and in the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung show the wide extent of his practical knowledge. As head of the of  he  a series of  reports (Beiträge zur Statistik des Königreichs Bayern, Heft 1–17, –) which are of very high value, especially as regards the growth of. His only complete in, the Researches, had gone out of  a very few  after the  was , but not until near the close of his life did Hermann find an opportunity of undertaking a revision of it. Upon this task he was engaged at the time of his death, 23d, and he had recast, enlarged, and amended nearly two-thirds of the. The second edition, prepared from his MS., and including those parts of the first edition which had not been revised or superseded, was in  by his friends DrHelferich and DrMayr. There have since been several.

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