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Ladislaus Bortkiewicz

1868 - 1931

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Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz (Russian Владислав Иосифович Борткевич, German Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz or Ladislaus von Bortkewitsch) (7 August 1868 – 15 July 1931) was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish ancestry. He wrote a book showing how the Poisson distribution, a discrete probability distribution, can be useful in applied statistics, and he made contributions to mathematical economics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ladislaus Bortkiewicz has received more than 98,210 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ladislaus Bortkiewicz is the 299th most popular economist (down from 298th in 2019), the 1,747th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,752nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz ranks 299 out of 414. Before him are Ludwig Lachmann, Yulia Navalnaya, Philippe Van Parijs, Pedro Solbes, Gottfried Haberler, and Michael Kremer. After him are Deirdre McCloskey, Mark Blaug, Karl Knies, David Landes, Charles P. Kindleberger, and Anna Schwartz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz ranks 157. Before him are Gustav Mie, Richard Teichmann, Heinrich Schenker, Prosper Poullet, Leonardus Nardus, and Federico Tinoco Granados. After him are Maria Andreyeva, Heinrich Held, Emilie Snethlage, José Vianna da Motta, Edgar Adams, and Meri Mangakāhia. Among people deceased in 1931, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz ranks 118. Before him are Kinue Hitomi, Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau, Federico Tinoco Granados, Alma Rubens, Marvin Hart, and Kálmán Kandó. After him are Eugen Schmidt, Richard Wettstein, Emiliano Figueroa, John Isaac Briquet, William Frederick Denning, and Konrad Stäheli.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz ranks 1,747 out of 3,761. Before him are Vera Panova (1905), Boris Parygin (1930), Sergei Solovyov (1944), Mikhail Kozakov (1934), Lyudmila Narusova (1951), and Yuri Matiyasevich (1947). After him are Maxim Kontsevich (1964), Dmitry Rybolovlev (1966), Sergei Zubatov (1864), Dmitry Glukhovsky (1979), Andrei Gavrilov (1955), and Fyodor Abramov (1920).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Russia

Among economists born in Russia, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz ranks 7. Before him are Nikolai Kondratiev (1892), Leonid Hurwicz (1917), Nikolay Danilevsky (1822), Eugen Slutsky (1880), Petr Aven (1955), and Alexander Chayanov (1888). After him are Leonid Abalkin (1930), Arkady Dvorkovich (1972), Tatyana Golikova (1966), Andrei Shleifer (1961), and Olga Golodets (1962).

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