Kurt Weichselberger

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Kurt Weichselberger (born April 13, 1929 in Vienna ; † February 7, 2016 ) was an Austrian statistician .

Life

Weichselberger was drafted into the Volkssturm in 1945 . After American prisoner of war he put 1947 Matura from. He then studied mathematics and physics at the Vienna University of Technology and the University of Vienna . From 1951 to 1953 he worked with Wilhelm Winkler at the Institute for Statistics of the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Vienna. In 1953 he was at Johann Radon with the dissertation The Bernstein polynomial in higher rooms for Dr. phil. PhD.

A stay abroad for further training in social statistics led to the United Kingdom. From 1953 to 1960 he worked at the social research center at the University of Münster in Dortmund. He also represented the working group of social science institutes in the specialist committee "Population Statistics " at the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden. In 1960 he became Johann Pfanzagl's assistant at the Institute for Economic and Social Statistics at the University of Cologne . In 1962 he completed his habilitation in statistics with the work of checking the results of censuses and was appointed private lecturer .

In 1963 he became a full professor at the Technical University of Berlin in West Berlin and director of the local institute for statistics and business mathematics and economics. From 1967 to 1968 he was rector of the TU Berlin. Due to the student unrest of the time , he initially resigned, but was then re-elected.

Since 1968 he was a member of the International Statistical Institute . In 1969 he moved to the seminar for special areas of statistics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Weichselberger was from 1980 to 1981 chairman of the economic and social science faculty conference . In 1997 he retired.

He was married and had five children.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Sigrid Pöhlmann: A methodology for uncertainty in knowledge based systems . Springer, Berlin a. a. 1990, ISBN 3-540-52336-7 .
  • Elementary basic concepts of a more general probability calculation . Part 1: Interval Probability as a Comprehensive Concept . Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-7908-1411-3 .

literature

  • Horst Rinne, Bernhard Rüger, Heinrich Strecker (Hrsg.): Basics of statistics and their applications. Festschrift for Kurt Weichselberger . Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg 1995, ISBN 3-7908-0872-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Weichselberger obituary notice. In: trauer.sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 10, 2016, accessed on February 13, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Weichselberger, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian statistician
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2016