Franz Xaver von Neumann-Spallart

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Franz Xaver von Neumann-Spallart (born November 11, 1837 in Vienna , † April 19, 1888 ibid) was an Austrian economist and statistician from the Neumann-Spallart family .

Life

He was one of four sons of the skilled tradesman Joseph Franz Neumann (1797-1880) from Tischnowitz in Moravia and his wife Elise Marie Anna von Spallart (1799-1879). When his father was ennobled in 1875, he took the name Neumann von Spallart .

Franz Xaver studied law and political science in Vienna, and in 1863 became professor of economics at the commercial academy there . In 1864 and 1865 the Austrian Ministry of Commerce called on the negotiations on customs and trade policy, which were then underway, and by founding the Association for Economic Progress he headed the Austrian free trade party. In 1869 he was given the newly established chair for economics at the War School, from which he later (1872) transferred to the University of Vienna as an associate professor and the following year as a full professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences . With this position he combined that of an honorary professor of statistics at the University of Vienna from 1884. He played a major role in the founding of the International Statistical Institute, as its vice-president he also functioned until his death on April 19, 1888.

In 1886 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

In 1894, Spallartgasse in Vienna- Penzing (14th district) was named after him.

His wife Gabrielle (née Benedict von Mautenau) was an Austrian composer, his grandson Max Georg von Spallart an Austrian theater music director and composer. A large bundle of compositions, letters, photos, manuscripts and documents from the estate of Gabrielle von Neumann-Spallart was auctioned on the Internet in January 2006.

Fonts

  • Austria's trade policy in the past, present and future , Vienna 1864
  • Civilization and Economic Progress (as an introduction to the report he edited on behalf of the Austrian government on the Paris World Exhibition of 1867), Vienna 1869
  • Economics and Army , Vienna 1869
  • Economics with special application to the army and military administration , Vienna 1873
  • The dearth of food , Berlin 1874
  • The harvests and prosperity in Austria-Hungary , Berlin 1874
  • The last famine in India , Jena 1875
  • India as Empire , Leipzig 1877
  • The Reichsrat elections in Austria in 1879 , Stuttgart 1880
  • Austria's maritime development , Stuttgart 1882
  • The overviews on production and world trade that he had published in Behm's Geographical Yearbook since 1870 appeared independently and expanded under the title: Overviews of the World Economy , Stuttgart, until 1887: 5 vols.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Franz Xaver von Neumann-Spallart. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 9, 2015 (Russian).
  2. ↑ "NachLASS der Fam. NEUMANN-SPALLART 1830 Vienna Radebeul Genealogy Ahnenforschung Ökonomie Österreich composer" on www.ebay.de (former item number: 6243454184, start of offer January 9, 2006, end of offer January 19, 2006)
personal data
SURNAME Neumann-Spallart, Franz Xaver von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economist and statistician
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1888
Place of death Vienna