Ernst Mischler

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Ernst Mischler (born December 23, 1857 in Prague , Kingdom of Bohemia , Austria-Hungary ; † December 28, 1912 in Laßnitzhöhe , Austria-Hungary) was an Austrian statistician , financial scientist , social scientist and author .

Life

Ernst Mischler was born on December 23, 1857 as the son of the German economist and university professor Peter Mischler (1821–1864) and his wife Rosa (lia) († 1911). His paternal grandparents were Peter, district doctor in Heppenheim / Bergstrasse , and Margarethe Mischler (née Knapp). The maternal grandparents were Wenzel, master binder in Liboch , and Anna Teuchert (née Gross). Four months before Ernst Mischler's birth, his father had received a full professorship at the University of Prague ; before that he had been an associate professor since November 1852. Mischler grew up in Prague next to two brothers and a sister, completed his schooling here and began studying law in 1876 at the then undivided University of Prague. In 1881, one year before the division into a Czech and a German university, he completed his studies as Dr. jur. from.

After that he was briefly employed by a railway company, but in 1881 he followed his teacher Theodor Inama von Sternegg (1843-1908) to the kk Central Statistical Commission , where he worked on four sides until 1888 (most recently in the office of court draftsman for finance). In 1884 he completed his habilitation in statistics at the University of Prague and in 1887 at the University of Vienna . The following year he married Marie Hauschka (1860–1955) in Vienna ; the marriage had a son and two daughters, including Werner Ernst Mischler (1889–1961) , who later became a writer with a Nazi background . Also in 1888 he ended his engagement in the kk Statistical Central Commission and followed the call of the University of Chernivtsi , where he received an extraordinary university professorship. During this time he founded the State Statistical Office of the Duchy of Bukovina , whose director he became in 1890. As author and editor-in-chief, he brought the announcements of this state office to life. In 1891, Mischler accepted an appointment at the German University in Prague , where he headed the courses in statistics, financial law and social policy. Mischler felt particularly attached to social policy after his father, who had originally taught at the University of Freiburg / Breisgau, contacted the socio-politically committed Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (1811–1877) in Mainz and was one of his staff. During this time, his main work, the handbook of administrative statistics , was created, in the first part of which he systematically presented the fundamentals of the subject scattered in various sources for the first time, while in the second part he dealt with the practical organization of administrative statistics . In 1893 Mischler accepted his full professorship at the University of Graz . By combining academic teaching and research with practical administrative statistics, he came to a sphere of activity that he liked very much.

The future statistician, economist and politician Alfred Gürtler (1875–1933) acted as Mischler's private assistant from 1904 to 1909. In the years 1899/1900 and 1907/08, Mischler appeared as dean of the law and political science faculty. In the year he was appointed to the University of Graz, Mischler founded the Styrian State Statistical Office in 1893 , which he took over and held until 1911. Parallel to his teaching activities at the University of Graz, Mischler also taught at the Technical University of Graz . Furthermore, he was significantly involved in the creation of the land register for poor and sick people in Styria and was also otherwise committed to the population. Among other things, he set up an employment agency for Graz in 1897 (a little later for all of Styria), and in 1902 the free proof of housing. In 1907, together with R. von Fürer, he founded the newspaper Der Arbeitsweise and, at the same time, was chairman of the Association of General Labor Records in Austria . In addition, Mischler was a member of the work council of the labor statistics office in the kk trade ministry , as well as the agriculture council in the kk arable agriculture and member of the permanent commission for the trade values. He was also a corresponding member of the Society for the Promotion of German Science, Art and Literature in Bohemia and Chairman of the Reich Association of General Employment Services and also held several other honorary titles and titles.

In addition, he gave much-noticed presentations at the conferences for state statisticians and was also very busy as a reviewer. After he began his university career in 1888, he stayed on as a corresponding member of the Central Statistical Commission and even became its president in 1911. Shortly before his death, Mischler made a special contribution to the processing of the census in Austria-Hungary in 1910 , to the sharper organizational boundaries of the department, as well as to the creation of a new department for economic statistics, to which Mischler also managed numerous editorial work. Furthermore, he succeeded in uniting the conferences of state and city statisticians that were previously held separately. The source work Austrian Statistics has been completely revised by Mischler and given a timely and valuable design. Mischler was honored and recognized many times throughout his life; among other things he was an honorary professor at the University of Vienna , an honorary member of the Society for Geography and Statistics in Frankfurt am Main , an honorary member of the Royal Statistical Society in London and a full member of the international statistical institute of the German Statistical Society . He was also a Knight of the Order of the Iron Crown III. Class and Knight of the Italian Crown Order .

In addition to the publication of numerous articles and texts in specialist newspapers and journals, Mischler also published a not insignificant number of specialist books. Particularly noteworthy is his collaboration with the Austrian legal scholar Joseph Ulbrich (1843–1910), with whom he wrote the Austrian State Dictionary between 1895 and 1897 . Handbook of the entire Austrian public law , on which numerous experts had contributed, published in two volumes. Between 1905 and 1909 the two published a substantially revised edition of the Austrian State Dictionary in four volumes. Furthermore, Mischler wrote at least two articles on important personalities in the German biography . Years later, the Austrian economic historian, sociologist and author Gustav Otruba (1925–1994) wrote the contribution to Ernst Mischler in Deutsche Biographie .

Ernst Mischler's grave at Hietzinger Friedhof (2014)

Five days after his 55th birthday, Mischler died on December 28, 1912 as a spa guest in the climatic health resort of Laßnitzhöhe , not far from Graz. He left behind his wife, who outlived him by over 42 years and did not die until the old age of 94 in 1955, as well as the three children Werner, Margarethe "Grete" and Edith. On December 31, 1912, Mischler was buried in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 19, number 137).

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst Mischler  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bio bibliography: Alfred Gürtler , accessed on July 11, 2019
  2. ↑ Ernst Mischler's contributions to Deutsche Biographie , accessed on July 11, 2019
  3. ↑ Personalities of the Villa Hiking Trail Part 2 , accessed on July 11, 2019
  4. ↑ Maria Mischler's grave on the official website of the Vienna Friedhöfe, accessed on July 11, 2019
  5. ↑ Ernst Mischler's grave on the official website of the Vienna Cemeteries, accessed on July 11, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Mischler, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian statistician, financial scientist, social scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Kingdom of Bohemia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1912
Place of death Laßnitzhöhe , Austria-Hungary