Étienne Laspeyres
Ernst Louis Étienne Laspeyres [ lasˈpaɪrəs ] (also Ernst Ludwig Stephan Laspeyres ; born November 28, 1834 in Halle , † August 4, 1913 in Gießen ) was a German economist and statistician .
Life
Étienne Laspeyres was the descendant of a Huguenot family that originally came from southern France and had lived in Berlin since the 17th century . His father was the legal scholar Ernst Adolf Theodor Laspeyres and his brothers the mineralogist Ernst Adolf Hugo Laspeyres and the architect Paul Laspeyres .
Laspeyres studied law and camera science at the universities of Tübingen , Berlin , Göttingen , Halle and Heidelberg from 1853 to 1859 . In 1857 he received his doctorate in Halle. iur., Dr. phil. In the same year he completed his habilitation there under Wilhelm Roscher for political and camera sciences and worked as a private lecturer until 1864.
In 1864 he became a full professor of political science at the University of Basel . In 1866 he was appointed to the Riga Polytechnic and in 1869 to the University of Dorpat . In 1873 he was appointed to the Karlsruhe Polytechnic , but the following year he moved to the University of Gießen , where he worked until 1900 and which he headed as rector in 1881/82.
Laspeyres died at the age of 78. He is buried in the old cemetery in Giessen .
The Laspeyres price index , which he developed in 1871, is named after Laspeyres . This is the basis for calculating many of today's stock indices, such as the DAX family.
Works (selection)
- The interrelationship between the population increase and the level of wages. Heidelberg 1860 (habilitation thesis).
- History of the economic views of the Dutch and their literature at the time of the republic. Leipzig 1863.
- Liebig's theory of soil depletion, illuminated from an economic point of view. Riga 1869.
- The Influence of Housing on Morality. Berlin 1869.
- The Chair Socialists and the Statistical Congresses. Berlin: Habel 1875.
- The age of the German professors. Berlin 1876.
literature
- Horst Rinne: Ernst Louis Étienne Laspeyres, 1834–1913 . In: Yearbooks for Economics and Statistics . No. 196, 1981, pp. 194-215.
- Horst Rinne: Laspeyres, Étienne. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 660 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guide to the Deutsche Börse share indices (p. 29) (PDF; 363 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laspeyres, Etienne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laspeyres, Ernst Louis Étienne; Laspeyres, Ernst Ludwig Stephan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist and statistician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1913 |
| Place of death | to water |