Ludwig Gumplowicz (March 9, 1838 – August 19, 1909), was a Polish sociologist, jurist, historian, and political scientist, who taught constitutional and administrative law at the University of Graz. His contributions to establishing Sociology as a social science is critcial to his success. Gumplowicz was the first great scholar to perceive the circumstances that seem to constitute the essence of the state's origin and development as arising with the utmost precision and systemic exactness. Gumplowicz saw a discipline that could be dedicated solely to the study of the collective ties between social groups and classes as the pinnacle of social science theory, or even pure history. Beginning with this premise, he dedicated himself to the study and investigation of social progress with the hig