Ladislaus von Bortkewitsch

Ladislaus von Bortkewitsch (born August 7, 1868 in Saint Petersburg , † July 15, 1931 in Berlin ), also Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz or Władysław Bortkiewicz (Polish form), was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish descent who taught in Germany .

Life

Bortkewitsch studied law in St. Petersburg and then, after graduating in 1890, political economy and statistics in Strasbourg, Göttingen (1892), Vienna and Leipzig. In 1893 he received his doctorate in Göttingen with the dissertation “The mean lifespan: the methods of determining it and its relationship to mortality measurement” with Wilhelm Lexis . From 1895 he taught statistics and actuarial mathematics in Strasbourg as a private lecturer, was employed by a railway company in St. Petersburg from 1897 to 1901, teaching statistics at the same time, and in 1901 became associate professor of statistics at the University of Berlin. In 1920 he became a full professor there.

In actuarial mathematics , he examined a. a. Death rates and the Poisson distribution in statistics. In economic theory he developed a solution to the transformation problem using a formulation of the problem by Vladimir Karpowitsch Dmitrijew in labor theory of value .

He was a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences , the Royal Statistical Society , the American Statistical Association and the International Statistical Institute . One of his students was the doctor and important medical statistician Karl Freudenberg (1892–1966).

Works

The mean life. The methods of their determination and their relation to the measurement of mortality . Gustav Fischer, Jena 1893 ( Göttingen digitization center )
Review of Léon Walras, Éléments d'économie politique pure , 2e édit. In: Revue d'économie politique . 1890
The law of small numbers . 1898
Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz: Value calculation and price calculation in the Marx system (1) . In: Archives for Social Science and Social Policy . tape 23 , 1906, pp. 1–50 ( online [PDF]).
Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz: Value calculation and price calculation in the Marx system (2) . In: Archives for Social Science and Social Policy . tape 25 , 1907, pp. 10–51 ( online [PDF]).
Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz: Value calculation and price calculation in the Marx system (3) . In: Archives for Social Science and Social Policy . tape 25 , 1907, pp. 455-488 ( online [PDF]).
Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz: To the correction of the basic theoretical construction of Marx in the third volume of the 'Capital' . In: Year books for economics and statistics (III. Episode) . tape 34 , 1907, pp. 319-335 ( online [PDF]).
The death rate and surplus women in the inpatient and progressive populations. At the same time a contribution to the question of calculating the time spent . In: Bulletin de l'Institut International de Statistique . Volume 19, No. 1, 1911, pp. 63-183
Radioactive radiation as the subject of probabilistic investigations . Springer, Berlin 1913
The iterations , spanish version, 1917
Value and Price in the Marxian System . In: International Economic Papers . Volume 2, 1952, pp. 5-60.
The cardinal error of the Böhm-Bawerk interest theory. (Schmoller's yearbooks, vol. Xxx).

literature

Joseph Schumpeter : Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz. In: Economic Journal . Volume 42, 1932, pp. 338-340, reprinted in: Ten great economists from Marx to Keynes . New York 1960, pp. 302-305

Ferdinand Tönnies : Ladislaus v. Bortkiewicz (1868-1931). In: Kölner Vierteljahrshefte für Soziologie , Vol. 10, 1931/32, pp. 433–46, critical ed. In: Ferdinand Tönnies Gesamtausgabe , Vol. 22, Berlin / New York 1998, pp. 315–319

Emil Julius Gumbel : Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz. In: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences , Vol. 2, New York 1968, pp. 128-131.

Paul A. Samuelson : Resolving a Historical Confusion in Population Analysis . In: Human Biology . Volume 48, 1976, pp. 559-580.

Marcel Nicolas: Bortkiewicz, Ladislaus von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 478 ( digitized version ).

Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Manfred Stürzbecher : Freudenberg, Karl. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 439.

personal data
SURNAME	Bortkewitsch, Ladislaus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bortkiewicz, Ladislaus von; Bortkiewicz, Wladyslaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian economist and statistician of Polish descent
DATE OF BIRTH	August 7, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH	July 15, 1931
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Manfred Stürzbecher : Freudenberg, Karl. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 439.