Emil Blenck
Emil Blenck (born December 22, 1832 in Magdeburg , † October 6, 1911 in Berlin ) was a German statistician.
Life
Blenck studied in Berlin, where he received twice the first faculty award for economic and statistical work. He became a government assessor in 1864 and was employed at the Royal Prussian Statistical Bureau until 1867 . Two years with the government in Potsdam followed . In 1874 he became a councilor and was later promoted to the secret council of government and in 1888 to the secret council of higher government. After he had initially been the representative of Ernst Engel , the director of the Statistical Bureau, in 1875 , he became his successor. Since 1882 Blenck has published all the publications of the royal Prussian statistical bureau ("Zeitschrift", "Prussische Statistics", "Jahrbuch", "Statistische Korrespondenz"), which since 1865 have produced a large number of especially published scientific papers by him, so about the various censuses, about the "narrow-gauge railways", about "the historical development, the present situation and the future of ethnography" etc. His anniversary publication "The royal Prussian statistical bureau entering its ninth decade" (Berl. 1885), the was translated into French by Cambert (Geneva 1887), was supplemented by his most recent work: "The Royal Prussian Statistical Bureau during the Years 1885-1896" (1898).
Web links
- Literature by and about Emil Blenck in the catalog of the German Central Library for Economics
literature
- Georg Evert : Emil Blenck . In: Bulletin de l'Institut International de Statistique 19.1. (1912), pp. 433-439. ( Gallica )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blenck, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German statistician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 1911 |
| Place of death | Berlin |