1837 - 1914
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 30,684 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Wilhelm Lexis is the 266th most popular economist (down from 245th in 2019), the 3,734th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,433rd in 2019) and the 31st most popular German Economist.
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Among economists, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 266 out of 315. Before him are Alexander Chayanov, Antony C. Sutton, Daron Acemoglu, Maurice Dobb, John Neville Keynes, and Jörg Meuthen. After him are Bruno de Finetti, Beatrice Webb, Arthur Laffer, Haruhiko Kuroda, Mark Blaug, and James Wolfensohn.
1888 - 1937
HPI: 49.08
Rank: 260
1925 - 2002
HPI: 48.99
Rank: 261
1967 - Present
HPI: 48.98
Rank: 262
1900 - 1976
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 263
1852 - 1949
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 264
1961 - Present
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 265
1837 - 1914
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 266
1906 - 1985
HPI: 48.65
Rank: 267
1858 - 1943
HPI: 48.52
Rank: 268
1940 - Present
HPI: 48.43
Rank: 269
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.43
Rank: 270
1927 - 2011
HPI: 48.33
Rank: 271
1933 - 2020
HPI: 48.29
Rank: 272
Among people born in 1837, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 76. Before him are Ignatz Kolisch, Charles Yerkes, Jorge Isaacs, Mary Harris Jones, Elizabeth Jane Gardner, and Alphonse Legros. After him are Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau, Władysław Żeleński, Artur Grottger, Theodore Gill, Georg von Kopp, and Francis Marrash. Among people deceased in 1914, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 91. Before him are Benedict Menni, Robert Hugh Benson, Dimitrie Sturdza, Józef Chełmoński, Peyo Yavorov, and José Evaristo Uriburu. After him are Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Christopher Cradock, Amélie Lundahl, John Murray, Joshua Chamberlain, and Jean Bouin.
1837 - 1889
HPI: 49.86
Rank: 70
1837 - 1905
HPI: 49.59
Rank: 71
1837 - 1895
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 72
1837 - 1930
HPI: 49.36
Rank: 73
1837 - 1922
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 74
1837 - 1911
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 75
1837 - 1914
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 76
1837 - 1902
HPI: 48.12
Rank: 77
1837 - 1921
HPI: 48.10
Rank: 78
1837 - 1867
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 79
1837 - 1914
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 80
1837 - 1914
HPI: 47.83
Rank: 81
1837 - 1873
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 82
1841 - 1914
HPI: 49.66
Rank: 85
1871 - 1914
HPI: 49.49
Rank: 86
1833 - 1914
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 87
1849 - 1914
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 88
1878 - 1914
HPI: 49.05
Rank: 89
1831 - 1914
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 90
1837 - 1914
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 91
1839 - 1914
HPI: 48.68
Rank: 92
1862 - 1914
HPI: 48.68
Rank: 93
1850 - 1914
HPI: 48.46
Rank: 94
1841 - 1914
HPI: 48.44
Rank: 95
1828 - 1914
HPI: 48.30
Rank: 96
1888 - 1914
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 97
Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 3,734 out of 6,142. Before him are Jörg Meuthen (1961), Martina Gedeck (1961), Louise Otto-Peters (1819), Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839), Selma Ergeç (1978), and Peter Carsten (1928). After him are Rudi Fischer (1912), Antje Jackelén (1955), Reinhard Libuda (1943), Eva Justin (1909), Eva Hesse (1936), and Princess Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1663).
1961 - Present
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 3,728
1961 - Present
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 3,729
1819 - 1895
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 3,730
1839 - 1884
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 3,731
1978 - Present
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 3,732
1928 - 2012
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 3,733
1837 - 1914
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 3,734
1912 - 1976
HPI: 48.70
Rank: 3,735
1955 - Present
HPI: 48.69
Rank: 3,736
1943 - 1996
HPI: 48.69
Rank: 3,737
1909 - 1966
HPI: 48.69
Rank: 3,738
1936 - 1970
HPI: 48.68
Rank: 3,739
1663 - 1724
HPI: 48.68
Rank: 3,740
Among economists born in Germany, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 31. Before him are Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), Étienne Laspeyres (1834), Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842), Theodore Levitt (1925), and Jörg Meuthen (1961). After him are Karl Knies (1821), Alice Salomon (1872), W. Michael Blumenthal (1926), Andreas Kaplan (1977), and Ludwig Lachmann (1906).
1805 - 1875
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 25
1834 - 1913
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 26
1817 - 1894
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 27
1842 - 1926
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 28
1925 - 2006
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 29
1961 - Present
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 30
1837 - 1914
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 31
1821 - 1898
HPI: 47.42
Rank: 32
1872 - 1948
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 33
1926 - Present
HPI: 44.99
Rank: 34
1977 - Present
HPI: 43.06
Rank: 35
1906 - 1990
HPI: 42.92
Rank: 36