Jürgen Bortz

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Jürgen Bortz (born March 8, 1943 in Kyritz ; † September 22, 2007 in Berlin ) was a psychologist and statistician .

Life

After the Second World War , Bortz's family fled from Kyritz in Brandenburg, which was part of the Soviet occupation zone , to Lüneburg , where he spent his childhood and youth.

Bortz studied psychology in Hamburg and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1968 . He then moved to the University of Erlangen as a research assistant and wrote his habilitation there in 1977 on psychological aesthetics research .

In 1972 Bortz was appointed to the Technical University of Berlin . He took over the department for psychological methodology at the Institute for Psychology. Bortz is best known for his statistics textbook for social scientists, which has been published since 1977, is standard reading at many German institutes and is briefly called "the Bortz" by professors and students.

Grave of Jürgen Bortz in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Bortz died in September 2007 at the age of 64 after years of illness. He was buried in the Heerstraße cemetery in the Westend district of Berlin (grave location: 15-157).

plant

  • with Christof Schuster: Statistics. For human and social scientists , 7th edition, Springer-Medizin-Verlag , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-12769-4 .
  • with Gustav A. Lienert: Brief statistics for clinical research. Guide for the non-distribution analysis of small samples , 3rd edition, Springer-Medizin-Verlag, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-75737-5 .
  • with Gustav A. Lienert, Klaus Boehnke: Distribution-free methods in biostatistics , 3rd edition, Springer-Medizin-Verlag, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-74706-2 .
  • with Nicola Döring: research methods and evaluation. For human and social scientists , 4th edition, Springer-Medizin-Verlag, Berlin [u. a.] 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-33305-0 . ( online ).
  • Daily newspapers as a means of political communication and their effect on the attitudes of readers , Nuremberg 1971.
  • Speaking voice assessment and judge's speaking voice. An experimental-statistical study on the rater-ratee problem , Technische Universität Berlin 1968. ( Dissertation )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. Benecke: In memory of Prof. Jürgen Bortz (obituary) (PDF; 124 kB)
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bortz. Statistician, psychologist, university professor . Short biography at http://www.berlin.friedparks.de/ . Retrieved November 20, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Bortz, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and statistician
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyritz
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 2007
Place of death Berlin