Gerhard Tintner

Gerhard Tintner
Born	September 29, 1907 Nuremberg, Bavaria
Died	November 13, 1983 (aged 76) Vienna, Austria
Nationality	Austrian American
Institutions	Iowa State University University of Southern California
Field	Econometrics
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Influences	Oskar Morgenstern
Influenced	Richard Loree Anderson Robert Basmann Oswald Brownlee Clifford Hildreth George Judge

Gerhard Tintner (September 29, 1907 – November 13, 1983) was an Austrian American economist who worked most of his career in the United States. Tintner is known for his contributions during the formation years of econometrics as a discipline.^[1][2] In an appraisal of his work, Karl A. Fox lauded Tintner as one of the “foremost econometricians of our time.”^[3]

Born to Austrian parents in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Tintner studied economics, statistics, and law at the University of Vienna, where he received his doctor's degree in 1929.^[4] He was a staff member of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research in 1936, before leaving Austria for the United States, “as he was pessimistic regarding the future of Austria”.^[5] He briefly worked as a Research Fellow at the Cowles Commission before joining faculty at Iowa State College, where he was promoted professor in 1946 and remained until 1962, when he resigned to join the staff of the University of Pittsburgh. In 1963, he accepted a position as Distinguished Professor of Economics and Mathematics at the University of Southern California. Returning to Austria in 1973, he accepted an appointment as Professor and Head (1973–1978) of the Institut für Ökonometrie at Vienna University of Technology, a position he held until retirement.^[6]

References

1. Deistler, Manfred; Deutsch, Edwin (1984). "Gerhard Tintner 1907–1983". Econometrica 52 (4): 1077–1078. JSTOR 1911204.
2. Qin, Duo (1993). The Formation of Econometrics: A Historical Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 28–31. ISBN 0-19-828388-1.
3. Fox, Karl A. (1969). "The Invisible Revolution in Economics: Emergence of a Mathematical Science". Economic Models, Estimation and Risk Programming: Essays in Honor of Gerhard Tintner. Berlin: Springer. pp. 2–19. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-46198-9_1. ISBN 3-540-04638-0.
4. Sengupta, Jati K. (1969). "The Econometric Work of Gerhard Tintner". Economic Models, Estimation and Risk Programming: Essays in Honor of Gerhard Tintner. Berlin: Springer. pp. 20–33. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-46198-9_2. ISBN 3-540-04638-0.
5. Feichtinger, Johannes (2001). Wissenschaft zwischen den Kulturen: Österreichische Hochschullehrer in der Emigration 1933–1945. Campus Verlag. p. 200.
6. http://www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/arch/rgrp/13-9-52.html

Further reading

• Craver, Earlene (1986). "The Emigration of the Austrian Economists". History of Political Economy 18 (1): 1–32. doi:10.1215/00182702-18-1-1.

External links

• Gerhard Tintner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project