Max Sering (18 January 1857 – 12 November 1939) was a

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. Sering was considered the most famous German agricultural economist of his time; his students briefly included

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. Sering studied in both Strasbourg and

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, before entering the civil service in

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in 1879. In 1883 he was sent by the

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to North America to study agricultural

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. Sering remarked that the

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served to further enhance the transition of peasant land from common ownership to private ownership.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sering, Max 1857 births 1939 deaths People from Barby, Germany People from the Province of Saxony German economists