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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 92,771 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ladislaus Bortkiewicz is the 301st most popular economist (down from 274th in 2019), the 1,756th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,653rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz ranks 301 out of 315Before him are Charles P. Kindleberger, James Steuart, Abhijit Banerjee, Michel Chossudovsky, Leonid Abalkin, and Walter Block. After him are José Ángel Gurría, Henry Charles Carey, Branko Milanović, Ha-Joon Chang, Ilham Tohti, and Fischer Black.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz ranks 151Before him are Maria Andreyeva, Federico Tinoco Granados, Kenjirō Tokutomi, Annie S. D. Maunder, Camille Jenatzy, and Harvey S. Firestone. After him are Hélène de Pourtalès, Kitamura Tokoku, Guy de la Chapelle, Anna Missuna, Sumner Paine, and Marie Belloc Lowndes. Among people deceased in 1931, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz ranks 117Before him are Aleksander Skrzyński, Alfred Maudslay, Konrad Stäheli, Louis Wolheim, Mohammad Ali Jauhar, and Art Acord. After him are Alfred Swahn, Edward Goodrich Acheson, Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, William Frederick Denning, Harry Clarke, and Rolf Johnsson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz ranks 1,756 out of 3,262Before him are Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (1884), Vikenty Veresaev (1867), Yuri Shevchuk (1957), Maya Kristalinskaya (1932), Valeri Tokarev (1952), and Fedor Ozep (1895). After him are Boris Vilkitsky (1885), Fyodor Bondarchuk (1967), Max Jakobson (1923), Carl Enckell (1876), Igor Novikov (1929), and Geydar Dzhemal (1947).

Among ECONOMISTS In Russia

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