Hugo Franz von Brachelli

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Hugo Franz Ritter von Brachelli, painting by Wenzel Ottokar Noltsch (1880)

Hugo Franz Ritter von Brachelli (born February 11, 1834 in Brno , † October 3, 1892 in Vienna ) was an Austrian statistician and university professor . He was rector of the Vienna University of Technology .

Life

Hugo Franz Brachelli studied law and political science at the University of Vienna from 1850 to 1854 . In 1857 he received his doctorate from the University of Jena to Dr. phil. From 1855 he was an adjunct in the statistical office of the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Commerce and worked for Karl von Czoernig-Czernhausen , among other things he prepared the International Statistical Congress in Vienna in 1857.

In 1860 he was appointed associate professor, in 1863 full professor of statistics and Austro-Hungarian constitutional and administrative law at the Imperial and Royal Polytechnic Institute (from 1872 technical university). At the Polytechnic Institute he was involved in the organizational reforms of 1865 and 1872. In the academic year 1878/79 he was elected rector of the technical university . In 1869 he also took over the chair for constitutional law and statistics at the military directorship and the higher artillery and genius course.

From 1863 he was an extraordinary member, from 1872 a full member of the Central Statistical Commission . From 1872 he was also a member of the editorial staff of the Austria - Archive for Legislation and Statistics magazine, and in that year was commissioned to set up a statistical department in the Ministry of Commerce.

In 1876, at the international statistical congress in Budapest, he pushed through the formation of an international commission for railway statistics. Under his leadership from 1877 to 1881, it developed the statistical basis for the international agreement on rail freight law concluded in Bern .

Honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery

From 1877 he was president of the permanent commission for commercial values, which he co-founded. In 1890 he returned to the Ministry of Commerce as Ministerialrat . There he reformed the foreign trade statistics of the Austro-Hungarian customs area and introduced a statistical obligation to declare goods with foreign countries.

Brachelli died in 1892 at the age of 58 and was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery in an honorary grave (Group 71C, No. 23).

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • 1853: The states of Europe in a short statistical presentation (5th edition 1907)
  • 1856/57: German national studies
  • 1858: Description of the Ottoman Empire and Greece
  • 1861–1867: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Austrian Empire , Hinrichs-Verlag, Leipzig
  • 1864–1868: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Middle and Small States , Hinrichs-Verlag, Leipzig, 7th edition
  • 1878: Statistical sketch of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy together with Liechtenstein , Hinrichs-Verlag, Leipzig, 6th edition
  • 1879: New atlas of the whole earth for the educated of all classes and for higher educational institutions: 30 maps, taking into account the geographic-statistical works , founded by K. Th. Wagner, drawn by Jakob Melchior Ziegler, reworked and expanded by Otto Delitsch and Hugo Franz von Brachelli, Hinrichs-Verlag, Leipzig, 35th edition

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brachelligasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Brachelli, Hugo Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brachelli, Hugo Franz Ritter von; Brachelli, Hugo Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian statistician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1892
Place of death Vienna