Abstract
T HE INTIMIDATING FIGURE, given to capital rages and disciplinary use of his corporal's cane, left the uneasy university professor he had summoned into his royal presence in no doubt about the administrative ailment of Prussia. The public service, he thundered, suffered from too many jurists. What was needed were men trained in political science, as he expressed it. This noisy conference, in 1727, led forthwith to the creation of the first academic chair for cameral science at the newly established University of Halle.' Soon others followed. Once again Frederick William I, credited by history with the touch of genius as a builder of administrative institutions, had triggered a development of widening significance, even though its antecedents can be traced well into the preceding century.2
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