August Meitzen

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

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 professor of the science of statistics and of political economy at the University of Berlin.

Works

His contributions to the science of statistics include:

He also wrote:

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