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Gossen was born in Düren (between Aachen and Cologne) on 7 September 1810; he died in Cologne on 13 February 1858. Little is known about his life, partly because the inconspicuous bachelor did not attract attention, partly because most of those who had known him were dead by the time he became famous, partly also because his literary remains, scant as they must have been, are lost. The principal biographical source is the essay by Walras (1885). The available facts are admirably surveyed by Georgescu-Roegen (1983), on whose masterly introduction to the English translation of Gossen’s book the following life sketch is mostly based.
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Niehans, J. (2018). Gossen, Hermann Heinrich (1810–1858). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_811
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