Richard Gisser

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Richard Gisser (2015)

Richard Gisser (born July 11, 1939 in Vienna ) is an Austrian population scientist who held management positions in the Austrian Central Statistical Office (now Statistics Austria ) until his retirement . In addition, he was the long-time director and later deputy director of the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , which is part of the research cooperation project Wittgenstein Center for Demography and Global Human Capital .

Life

Richard Gisser grew up as the son of an estate manager for the Prince Reuss in the northern Lower Austria and put 1957 on Bundesrealgymnasium Laa an der Thaya the Matura from. From 1958 to 1964 he studied sociology and human geography at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1975 with a dissertation on migration flows to Vienna. In 1976 he also passed the state examination in official statistics .

After completing his studies, he worked at the Austrian Institute for Spatial Planning from 1964 to 1968 and in 1969 moved to the then Austrian Central Statistical Office, now Statistics Austria, where he was initially head of the Population and Migration Statistics section, and from 1985 to 2001 director of the Population Division and from 2001 was Deputy Director of the Population and Social Statistics Directorate before retiring in 2002. He is still a member of the Austrian Statistical Society (ÖSG) and organizes the demography working group there . In 1986 he was given the official title of Hofrat .

In addition, Gisser has headed the Applied Demographic Research section at the Austrian Institute for Demography (IfD) since 1977 and was director of this research facility of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) from 1987 to 2001 (with a short break), and he played a major role in its sustainable development would have. After the transformation of the IfD into the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) under Wolfgang Lutz , he took over the post of deputy director until the end of 2017 and (together with Isabella Buber-Ennser) head of the research group Demography Austria . He was also represented in various population-relevant commissions of the Academy and from 1988 to 2001 lecturer in demography at the University of Vienna.

Since 2000 he has been the editor of Statistische Nachrichten , the print publication of Statistics Austria, and is also a member of the editorial board of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research of the VID (since 2003) and of Demografie , Prague (since 2013).

On behalf of the Austrian government, Gisser was a permanent delegate to the European Population Committee of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg from 1977 to 2005 , as well as at several international conferences on population development and as an invited expert on many demographic and statistical topics. As a long-time expert in the field, he repeatedly organized international expert meetings between 1978 and 2014.

His research focuses on the historical demography of Austria , demographic and social statistics, trends and projections of population development and the associated population policy implications .

He is married and has three children.

His parents' house, the former "Gisservilla" in Dörfles / Ernstbrunn , now houses the Wolf Research Center (WSC) / Wolf Science Center .

Memberships

  • International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)
  • European Association for Population Studies (EAPS)
  • German Society for Demography (DGD)
  • Austrian Statistical Society (OSG; organizer of the Demography section)

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Johannes Klotz and Richard Gisser, Mortality Differentials by Religious Denomination in Vienna 1981–2002 . VID Working Paper 8/2015
  • Richard Gisser and Dalkhat Ediev: Austria's Families 2032 - New Aspects. In: Wolfgang Lutz, Helmut Strasser (Ed.) Austria 2032. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Gerhart Bruckmann . Series of publications by the Institute for Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 22, 63-102. Vienna (2012).
  • Richard Gisser: New Migration Flow Statistics in Austria (Methods, Problems and Outcomes) . Working Paper for the Joint ECE / EUROSTAT Work Session on Migration Statistics, Geneva, 8-10 May 2000.
  • Richard Gisser: Effects of birth-promoting measures. In: Richard Gisser, Ludwig Reiter, Helmuth Schattovits and Liselotte Wilk (eds.): Lebenswelt Familie , 641–647. Vienna (1990).
  • Charlotte Höhn, Karl Martin Bolte, Richard Gisser, Jürg A. Hauser and Ralf Hußmanns: Multilingual demographic dictionary, German version . Series of publications by the Federal Institute for Population Research, Sonderbd. 16. Boppard on the Rhine (1987).
  • Richard Gisser: Data on the population development of the Austrian Alpine countries 1819–1913. In: Österreichisches Statistisches Zentralamt (Ed.) History and results of the central official statistics in Austria 1829-1979 . Contributions to Austrian Statistics 550: 403–424, and table appendix (Contribution to Issue 550A), 23–31. Vienna: Austrian Central Statistical Office (1979).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the Wittgenstein Center
  2. ^ ÖSG website: Demography working group
  3. ^ Announcement in the Vienna Standard of January 22, 2002
  4. ↑ Report from the Austrian Academy of Sciences
personal data
SURNAME Gisser, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian population scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna