HUFELAND, GOTTLIEB (176o-1817), German econo mist and jurist, was born at Danzig on Oct. 19, 1760. He studied at Leipzig, Gottingen and Jena, and in 1788 was appointed to an extraordinary professorship at Jena. Five years later he was made ordinary professor. He lectured on natural law, devel oping with great acuteness and skill the formal principles of the Kantian theory of legislation. In 1803 Hufeland removed to Wiirzburg, and then to Landshut. From 1808 to 1812 he acted as burgomaster in his native town of Danzig. He died at Halle on Feb. 25, 1817.
Hufeland's works on the theory of legislation are marked by pre cision of statement and clearness of deduction. They form on the whole the best commentary upon Kant's Rechtslehre, the princi ples of which they carry out in detail, and apply to the discussion of positive laws. In political economy Huf eland's chief work is the Neue Grundlegung der Staatswirthsclia f tskunst (2 vols., the second volume of which has the special title, Lehre vom Gelde and Geldumlaufe. Hufeland was the first among German economists to point out the profit of the entrepreneur as a distinct species of revenue with laws peculiar to itself.