Friedrich List And England

In the nineteenth century few economists were so widely travelled as Friedrich List, who lived for quite long periods in foreign countries. ¹ In 1822 he fled from Württemberg to Strasbourg on learning that he had been sentenced to 10 months imprisonment for insulting the king and other offences. He was in France for nearly a year and then went to Switzerland where he stayed until July 1824. ² On returning to Württemberg he was sent to a fortress but was released after serving only half his sentence on condition that he emigrated. List then migrated to the United States where he remained for 5 years. ³ He was back in Europe in 1830 living first in Paris, ⁴ then in Altona and Leipzig, then in Paris again, and finally in Augsburg. List lived long enough in the United States and France to gain a wide knowledge of political and economic affairs in those countries—as can be seen from many well informed articles which he contributed to the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung, the Eisenbahn-journal, the Zollvereinsblatt and other periodicals.