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Lieber, Francis

educator, author, was born March 18, 1800, in Germany. He was an eminent publicist, professor of political economy in the university of South Carolina in 1835-56, and subsequently at Columbia college. He was the author of Reminiscences of Niebuhr; The West, and Other Poems; Manual of Political Ethics; Laws of Property; Civil Liberty and Self-Government; Legal and Political Hermeneutics; Instructions for the Armies in the Field; The Character of the Gentleman; and Miscellaneous Writings.

He died Oct. 2, 1872, in New York city.

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