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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 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

Among economists, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 266 out of 315Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 76Before 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 91Before 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.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 3,734 out of 6,142Before 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).

Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 31Before 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).