August Meitzen

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August Meitzen (born December 16, 1822 in Breslau , † January 19, 1910 in Berlin ) was a German statistician and economist .

Live and act

August Meitzen attended the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in his hometown and was also a classmate of Ferdinand Lassalle . After graduating, Meitzen began to study in Berlin and Breslau and was able to successfully complete this course in spring 1848 with a doctorate . In his dissertation, Meitzen dealt with a representation of the watch industry in the Black Forest.

Meitzen then began his career in various administrative positions. Between 1853 and 1856 Meitzen held the office of mayor of Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains . He then advanced to become a consultant for agricultural administrative issues in Wroclaw and held this office until 1865. On the side, so to speak, he devoted himself to agricultural history studies in the local state archive; Meitzen u. a. the acquaintance with the historian Wilhelm Wattenbach , who supported him in his work.

In 1865 Meitzen was called to Berlin to entrust him with the evaluation and later processing of the results of a property tax assessment. Two years later, the Royal Prussian Statistical Bureau took Meitzen on as an employee and worked there until he left in 1872. a. together with the statistician Ernst Engel . In 1872 Meitzen moved to the Imperial Statistical Office of the German Empire with the rank of secret government councilor . Meitzen held this office until 1882 and was there mostly involved in the collection and analysis of agricultural, commercial and hydrographic data.

In 1875 he became an associate professor of statistics and economics at the University of Berlin. In 1891 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . From 1903 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

On his travels through half of Europe, Meitzen was able to continue his studies, which were then the basis for various publications.

August Meitzen died in Berlin in 1910 at the age of 87 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling of the cemetery carried out by the National Socialists in 1938/1939, Meitzen's remains were reburied in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf near Berlin.

Fonts

  • Documents from Silesian villages in the " Codex diplomaticus Silesiae ", Vol. 4 (Bresl. 1863)
  • The cultural conditions of the Slavs before the German colonization . Wroclaw 1864
  • The spread of the Germans in Germany and their settlement in the Slavic areas . Jena 1879
  • The soil and the agricultural conditions of the Prussian state . Berlin 1868/73 (4 vol.)
  • Topographical considerations on the construction of canals in Germany . Berlin 1870
  • The question of canal construction in Prussia . Leipzig 1885
  • The shared responsibility of the educated for the welfare of the working classes . Berlin 1876
  • The German house in its popular forms . Berlin 1882
  • History, theory and technology of statistics . Berlin 1886

literature

Web links

Wikisource: August Meitzen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pp. 306, 474.
personal data
SURNAME Meitzen, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German statistician and economist
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1910
Place of death Berlin