ABSTRACT
Although the famous social critics of the 19th century did not know the term quality-of-life yet, they already regarded the improvement of the circumstances of living as the main motivating force of human development. One of the first definitions of quality-of-life is therefore taken from the area of social charity science:
“Measure of the congruence between the conditions of a certain objective life standard and the subjective evaluation of the thereby marked group of population.”
