Alexander Ivanovich Chuprov
Alexander Ivanovich Tschuprov , Russian Александр Иванович Чупров , English transcription Alexander Ivanovich Chuprov (born February 6, 1842 in Mosalsk ; † February 24, 1908 in Munich ) was a Russian economist and statistician.
He was the son of an Orthodox priest and studied law in Moscow. He began to be interested in the work of the German economist Wilhelm Roscher . Ivan Kondratjewitsch Babst was one of his teachers in Moscow . In 1869 he founded the Society for the Dissemination of Technical Knowledge in Moscow. He studied the railway system in Russia on a statistical basis and in 1872 was given the opportunity to continue his studies in Germany (Leipzig, Munich, Heidelberg) and Vienna. In 1875 he defended his master's thesis on railways in Russia with the academy member Ivan Ivanovich Janschul , with the second part of the work he received his doctorate in 1878. He became a professor in Moscow. In 1899 he went abroad for health reasons and died of a heart attack in Munich in 1908.
Chuprov was the driving force behind statistical surveys for the provincial administrations ( Zemstvo ) in Russia. He particularly examined the Russian peasant class.
In 1887 he became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
His son Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov was also a well-known statistician and economist, who was occasionally confused with his father.
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| SURNAME | Tschuprov, Alexander Ivanovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chuprov, Alexander Ivanovich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian economist and statistician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mossalsk |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1908 |
| Place of death | Munich |