Franz Ferschl

Franz Ferschl (born June 20, 1929 in Freistadt , † December 31, 2006 in Munich ) was an Austrian statistician and university professor.

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Grave site in the Winthirfriedhof, Munich

Ferschl was born in Upper Austria. After graduating from high school, he completed a teaching degree for mathematics and physics at secondary schools at the University of Vienna from 1948 to 1953 . After a year of probation at the Realschule Linz , he returned to the University of Vienna in 1954 for a full course in mathematics, which he received in 1956 with the degree of Dr. phil. completed. From 1955 to 1965 he worked as a statistical advisor for the Federal Chamber of Commerce .

In 1964 he qualified as a professor in Vienna in the field of stochastics on the subject of “random economic processes ”. In 1965 he was offered the chair for statistics at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , where he taught until 1972. While teaching in Bonn, he also met his wife Inge, née Luenen (* 1942). During this time, he was also deputy chairman of the German Society for Corporate Research (DGU) from 1966 to 1970 . In 1972 he returned to Vienna to the chair of statistics there at the university's institute for statistics. In 1975 he also received the chair for the subject at the full professor for statistics at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU). In 1995 he retired from both universities. In 1997 he was made an honorary member of the Austrian Statistical Society (ÖSG).

His body was buried in the Winthir cemetery in Munich-Neuhausen.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Emer. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Franz Ferschl (1929–2006) , Austrian Statistical Society, accessed on May 18, 2014.
2. ↑ G. Feichtinger , K.-P. Kistner , W. Polasek : Obituary for Prof. Dr. Franz Ferschl. In: Austrian Journal of Statistics. Issue 36, 2007, No. 3, pp. 241–246.