Lorenz von Stein was a German

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 economist

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, sociologist, and public administration

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 scholar from Eckernförde

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. As an advisor to Meiji period

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 Japan

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, his conservative political views influenced the wording of the Constitution of the Empire of Japan

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Stein was born in the seaside town of Borby in Eckernförde

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 in Schleswig-Holstein

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 as Wasmer Jacob Lorentz. He studied philosophy

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 and jurisprudence

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 at the universities of Kiel

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 and Jena from 1835-1839, and at the University of Paris

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 from 1841-1842. Between 1846 and 1851 Stein was an associate professor at the University of Kiel

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, and also served as a member of the Frankfurt Parliament

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 in 1848.