ECONOMIST

Wilhelm Lexis

1837 - 1914

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Wilhelm Lexis (17 July 1837, Eschweiler, Germany – 24 August 1914, Göttingen, Germany), full name Wilhelm Hector Richard Albrecht Lexis, was a German statistician, economist, and social scientist. The Oxford Dictionary of Statistics cites him as a "pioneer of the analysis of demographic time series". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Lexis has received more than 33,428 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Wilhelm Lexis is the 261st most popular economist (up from 263rd in 2019), the 3,948th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,725th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Economist.

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  • 1.41

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 261 out of 414. Before him are Greg Mankiw, Tony Atkinson, Daron Acemoglu, Eugen Varga, Maurice Dobb, and Dennis Meadows. After him are Nouriel Roubini, Colin Clark, Kenichi Ohmae, Haruhiko Kuroda, James Wolfensohn, and Petr Aven.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 81. Before him are Wilhelm Kühne, Jorge Isaacs, Charles Yerkes, Tigran Chukhajian, Mary Harris Jones, and Elizabeth Jane Gardner. After him are Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar, Alphonse Legros, Paul Gordan, Artur Grottger, Ralph Copeland, and Thomas Moran. Among people deceased in 1914, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 97. Before him are Adolf Martens, Jules Lemaître, Józef Chełmoński, Christopher Cradock, Jean Bouin, and Richard Heuberger. After him are Koos de la Rey, Ayub Khan, Carl Theodore Liebermann, Peyo Yavorov, Jacob Riis, and Carl Chun.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 3,948 out of 7,253. Before him are Gottfried August Homilius (1714), John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1621), Paul Mebus (1920), Bernd Schneider (1973), Johann Peter Salomon (1745), and Grete Hermann (1901). After him are Paul Pietsch (1911), Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782), Wilhelm Gesenius (1786), Edgar Reitz (1932), Marco Rose (1976), and Ernest Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1560).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 30. Before him are Albert O. Hirschman (1915), Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), Étienne Laspeyres (1834), Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842), and Theodore Levitt (1925). After him are Andreas Kaplan (1977), Alfred Müller-Armack (1901), Ludwig Lachmann (1906), Karl Knies (1821), Alice Salomon (1872), and Jörg Meuthen (1961).

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