Georg von Mayr

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Georg von Mayr

Georg Mayr , von Mayr from 1879 , (born February 12, 1841 in Würzburg , † September 6, 1925 in Tutzing ) was a statistician and economist .

Life

Georg Mayr was the son of the mathematician and professor at the Würzburg University Aloys Mayr . He studied in Munich and completed his habilitation in 1865 at the University of Munich.

In 1868 he became associate professor and in 1869 the successor to his academic teacher Friedrich von Hermann in the management of the statistical office. Later he was Ministerialrat, as which he founded the journal of the Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau in 1869 , in which he published numerous works, mostly related to population statistics .

The star chart was first used by Mayr in 1877.

In September 1879 he was appointed Imperial Undersecretary of State to the Alsatian Ministry in Strasbourg , he resigned in 1887 and then lived in Munich. Mayr was ennobled in 1897. On December 6, 1913, he became rector of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Mayr was one of the signatories of the Manifesto of 93 in 1914.

Fonts

  • The organization of official statistics . Munich 1876.
  • The law in social life . Munich 1877.
  • The German Reich and the tobacco monopoly . anonymous. Stuttgart 1878.
  • Demographic statistics . 1897.
  • Theoretical statistics . Tubingen 1914.
  • Moral statistics including crime statistics . Tübingen 1917.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Small Encyclopedia in Two Volumes . tape 2 : L-Z. Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich 1950, DNB  451127552 , p. 136 .
  2. ↑ Georg von Mayr: The Laws of Social Life (=  The forces of nature. A natural scientific public library . Volume 23 ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1877, OCLC 459436998 , p. 78 .
  3. ↑ Michael Friendly: Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization . 2008 ( math.yorku.ca [PDF]).

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personal data
SURNAME Mayr, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayr, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German statistician and economist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1925
Place of death Tutzing