Friedrich Freiherr von Wieser (; July 10, 1851 – July 22, 1926) was an early (so-called "first generation") economist of the
Austrian School of economics. Born in
Vienna, the son of Privy Councillor Leopold von Wieser, a high official in the war ministry, he first trained in sociology and law. In 1872, the year he took his degree, he encountered Austrian-school founder
Carl Menger's
Grundsätze and switched his interest to economic theory. Wieser held posts at the universities of Vienna and Prague until succeeding Menger in Vienna in 1903, where, with brother-in-law
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, he shaped the next generation of Austrian economists including
Ludwig von Mises,
Friedrich Hayek and
Joseph Schumpeter in the late 1890s and early 20th century. He became Austrian finance minister in 1917.