Adolf Ficker

Adolf Ficker (born June 13, 1816 in Olomouc ; † March 12, 1880 in Vienna ) was an Austrian philologist, historian and statistician .

Life

Adolf Ficker attended high school in Vienna and studied philosophy and law at the University of Vienna . He worked from 1840 to 1843 as a teacher of classical philology at the Lyceum in Ljubljana and then until 1853 at the University of Olomouc and at the Imperial and Royal Higher School in Chernivtsi . In 1853 he was appointed ministerial secretary to the Directorate for Administrative Statistics in Vienna and in 1864 made head of it.

He represented the Austrian government at the international statistical congresses in Berlin (1863), The Hague (1869), Saint Petersburg (1872) and Pest (1876). In 1870, when he was appointed advisor for grammar schools and secondary schools to the Ministry of Education, he made a contribution to the Austrian school system, which he also promoted as a statistician, no less than official statistics. Since 1873 Ficker held the position of President of the Central Statistical Commission with the title of Section Head.

In 1875 he founded the Vienna Statistical Monthly .

Fonts

Contributions to the oldest history of Bukovina a. their neighboring countries. The Goths and Dacians. Chernivtsi 1852
The most important moments of the population of the Austrian monarchy are shown statistically . Gotha: Perthes 1860
The main statistical relationships of the population of the Kingdom of Bohemia . Vienna: Hölzel, 1864
The ethnic groups of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, their areas, borders and islands: historically, geographically, statistically represented . With 4 cards. Vienna: KK Hof- und Staatsdr. 1869
History, organization of statistics for the Austrian education system . Vienna 1873, 2 volumes
Ministry of Education annual reports for 1870-72 . Vienna 1871–73
JG Fichte's thoughts on education . Crimmitschau 1881
Duke Friedrich II, the last Babenberger . Innsbruck: Verlag of the Wagner'schen Uni.-Buchhandlung, 1884.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Ficker, Adolph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 4th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 218 ( digitized version ).
Fucking Adolph. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 309.
Erasmus Schwab wrote an obituary: Dr. Adolf Ficker . Vienna 1880

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Göderle: Census and Ethnicity. To create knowledge about social realities in the Habsburg Empire between 1848 and 1910. Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-2843-3 , p. 174 ( limited preview in Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Ficker, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian civil servant and statistician
DATE OF BIRTH	June 13, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH	Olomouc
DATE OF DEATH	March 12, 1880
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Wolfgang Göderle: Census and Ethnicity. To create knowledge about social realities in the Habsburg Empire between 1848 and 1910. Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-2843-3 , p. 174 ( limited preview in Google book search).