Richard Böckh

Richard Böckh (born March 28, 1824 in Berlin ; † December 5, 1907 there ) was the best-known German statistician at the end of the 19th century. He was the third son of the archaeologist August Böckh .

Life

Böckh studied law and political science and, after passing the first state examination, initially worked as an auscultator at the criminal court and later at the Berlin city court. Immediately after taking the assessor examination, he joined the Royal Prussian Statistical Bureau in Berlin in 1852 because of his pronounced geographic and mathematical interests and knowledge, and worked there under the directors Carl Friedrich Dieterici and Ernst Engel as assessor and later as a councilor. From 1875 to 1903 he headed the Statistical Bureau of the City of Berlin , most recently with the title of a Privy Councilor. From 1881 on he was also an extraordinary, then a full honorary professor at the Friedrich Wilhelms University . Ferdinand Tönnies and Robert René Kuczynski were among his students .

Works

• General overview of publications from the administrative statistics of the various countries . Berlin: Schade, 1856 University of Cologne
• The historical development of the official statistics of the Prussian state . Berlin: Decker 1863. University of Cologne
• The statistical significance of the vernacular as a mark of nationality . Berlin Dümmler 1866. In: Journal for Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft
• The German Population and Language Area in the European States: A Statistical Study . Berlin: Good Day 1869
• The statistical measurement of marital fertility . In: Bulletin de l'Institut International de Statistique 5.1. Pp. 159-188. (1890).
• Halley as a statistician. In celebration of the bicentenary of Halley's mortality table . In: Bulletin de l'Institut International de Statistique 7.1. Pp. 1-24. (1893) Gallica

literature

• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 16 f. ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
• Ernst Meier:  Boeckh, Georg Friedrich Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 367 ( digitized version ).
• Heinrich Silbergleit : Richard Böckh . In: Bulletin de l'Institut International de Statistique 18.1. (1909), pp. 659-667. Gallica

Web links

Wikisource: Richard Böckh  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Richard Böckh in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Richard Böckh in the catalog of the German Central Library for Economics