Wilhelm Bickel
Wilhelm Bickel (born March 14, 1903 in Bombay ; † April 7, 1977 in Zurich ; resident in Bubikon ) was a Swiss - British historian , social scientist , statistician , financial scientist and university lecturer .
biography
The son of a businessman spent his childhood and youth in India and southern Germany and after attending school began studying social economics at the University of Zurich , which he completed in 1926 with a doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of changes in the economic rationale of free trade policy since the 18th century. Century completed. After a subsequent stay in England he returned during the Great Depression back in 1932 in Switzerland. On his return he became a statistician for the cantonal governments of Basel and Zurich before completing his habilitation in 1944 .
In 1946 he accepted a position as a professor at the chair for statistics , practical social economics and finance at the University of Zurich and continued teaching until his retirement in 1973. During this time, Andreas Miller completed his habilitation with him. In the meantime he was also rector of the University of Zurich between 1966 and 1967 . After his retirement in 1973 he was awarded the title of honorary professor .
On his 70th birthday in 1973, Heinz Haller and others published the commemorative publication Social Science in the Service of Economic Policy. Wilhelm Bickel on his 70th birthday .
Publications
Bickel wrote numerous specialist papers. In 1947 a standard work on demography appeared with the history of population and population policy in Switzerland . His other publications included:
- State contributions to the City of Zurich: written on behalf of the City Council of Zurich , Zurich 1936
- The aging of the Swiss population , Zurich 1937
- The tax as an instrument of income and wealth equalization. Public finance and currency problems. Ceremony for Eugen Grossmann , 1949
- The wealth and debt statistics , 1952
- Agriculture and Agricultural Policy in Switzerland , Zurich 1961
- Public finances , Bern 1964
- Long-term structural and income development in Swiss agriculture I: Investigations by the Economic Institute and the Institute for Operations Research and Electronic Data Processing at the University of Zurich , Bern 1969
- The Swiss National Economy: Development and Structure , Aarau 1973
Web links
- Martin Illi: Bickel, Wilhelm. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Publications by and about Wilhelm Bickel in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günther Schulz (ed.): 100 years Vierteljahrsschrift for Social and Economic History: Social and Economic History: Perspectives - Fields - problems (= Beihefte: Quarterly magazine for social and economic history . No. 169 ). Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-515-08435-5 , ISSN 0341-0846 , p. 253 (661 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Concise dictionary of economics: storage to oligopoly theory (= Willi Albers [Hrsg.]: Archaeologia Homerica - delivery edition . Volume 5 ). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-525-10256-9 , pp. 632 (678 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Publications by Wilhelm Bickel
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bickel, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss-British historian, social economist, financial scientist and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bombay |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1977 |
| Place of death | Zurich |