Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Dieterici
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Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Dieterici (23 August 1790 Berlin
- 30 July 1859 Berlin) was a German
political economist.
-geographer
in Blücher
's army from 1813 to 1815, was engaged in the Ministry of Public Instruction, became professor of political science in the University of Berlin
, and in 1844 was placed at the head of the statistical bureau. He published a number of important works on political economy and statistics
, among which may be mentioned: De Via et Ratione Œconomiam Politicam Docendi and Statistische Uebersicht der wichtigsten Gegenstände des Verkehrs und Verbrauchs im preussischen Staat und im deutschen Zollverband (1838).
Berlin
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- 30 July 1859 Berlin) was a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
political economist.
Biography
He was an engineerEngineer
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-geographer
Geographer
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in Blücher
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt , Graf , later elevated to Fürst von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall who led his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 with the Duke of Wellington.He is...
's army from 1813 to 1815, was engaged in the Ministry of Public Instruction, became professor of political science in the University of Berlin
Humboldt University of Berlin
The Humboldt University of Berlin is Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities...
, and in 1844 was placed at the head of the statistical bureau. He published a number of important works on political economy and statistics
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
, among which may be mentioned: De Via et Ratione Œconomiam Politicam Docendi and Statistische Uebersicht der wichtigsten Gegenstände des Verkehrs und Verbrauchs im preussischen Staat und im deutschen Zollverband (1838).