Philipp Wilhelm von Hörnigk

Philipp Wilhelm von Hörnigk (1640–1714) was an Austrian cameralist and mercantilist writer. He took a law doctorate at Ingolstadt in 1661 and compiled trade statistics in Vienna from 1673.

After Vienna's 1683 Ottoman siege, his 1684 manifesto Austria over All argued that wealth rested on raw materials rather than trade, calling for protected mines and manufactures and an army of a hundred thousand men. Treating the Habsburg lands as one economic space, it dominated policy debate for a generation. Hörnigk died in 1714, and the book reached fifteen editions by 1784.