ECONOMIST

Ernst Engel

1821 - 1896

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Ernst Engel (; German: [ˈɛŋəl]; 26 March 1821 – 8 December 1896) was a German statistician and economist, famous for the Engel curve and Engel's law. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Engel has received more than 75,015 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ernst Engel is the 157th most popular economist (down from 140th in 2019), the 1,906th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,533rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Ernst Engel ranks 157 out of 414. Before him are Benedetto Cotrugli, Walt Whitman Rostow, Peter Diamond, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Michał Kalecki, and Kenneth E. Boulding. After him are John Bates Clark, Oskar R. Lange, William F. Sharpe, Daniel McFadden, Roger Myerson, and Piero Sraffa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Ernst Engel ranks 29. Before him are Sebastian Kneipp, Giovanni Bottesini, Bartolomé Mitre, Eduard Heine, Henry Thomas Buckle, and Leon Pinsker. After him are Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg, Tuone Udaina, Rachel Félix, Félix Ziem, Cyprian Norwid, and Franz Doppler. Among people deceased in 1896, Ernst Engel ranks 30. Before him are Emil du Bois-Reymond, Frederic Leighton, Maurice de Hirsch, Ante Starčević, Heinrich von Treitschke, and Marcelo H. del Pilar. After him are Luigi Federico Menabrea, Luis Ricardo Falero, Giuseppe Fiorelli, Ernst Curtius, Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, and Robert Nobel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Engel ranks 1,906 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Kirnberger (1721), Walter Stennes (1895), Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (1860), Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633), Friedrich Krupp (1787), and Willi Hennig (1913). After him are Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg (1821), Guido Buchwald (1961), Elvira Madigan (1867), Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1667), Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke (1889), and Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach (1800).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Ernst Engel ranks 18. Before him are Lorenz von Stein (1815), Oskar Morgenstern (1902), Adolph Wagner (1835), Ernest Mandel (1923), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949), and Gustav von Schmoller (1838). After him are Wilhelm Röpke (1899), Walter Eucken (1891), Lujo Brentano (1844), E. F. Schumacher (1911), Adam Müller (1779), and Albert O. Hirschman (1915).

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