August Meitzen

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August Meitzen (born 16 December 1822, in Breslau; died 19 January 1910, in Berlin) was a German statistician.

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Biography

He was born in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) and educated at Heidelberg and Tübingen. He was a prominent member of the Statistical Bureau, and in 1875 was made an associate professor of political sciences (Staatswissenschaften) at the University of Berlin (honorary professor from 1892). [1]

Works

His contributions to the science of statistics include:

He also wrote:

He was the author of several biographies in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . [4]

Notes

  1. Meitzen, August In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN   3-428-00197-4, S. 734 f.
  2. August Meitzen de.Wikisource (bibliography)
  3. Ashley, W. J. (1898). "Meitzen's Siedelung und Agrarwesen der Germanen". Political Science Quarterly. 13 (1): 143–155. doi:10.2307/2140007. ISSN   0032-3195. JSTOR   2140007.
  4. Kategorie:ADB:Autor:August Meitzen at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

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