Jacques Bertillon

Adolphe -Louis Jacques Bertillon ( born November 11, 1851 in Paris, † July 7, 1922 in Valmondois ) was a French statistician and demographer.

He is the son of a physician, scientist and statistician Louis -Adolphe Bertillon and the older brother of criminologist and former head of the Office Recognition in Paris Alphonse Bertillon.

As a trained physician, he turned to 1870, the statistics and succeeded his father in the statistical description of the population of France after.

On Bertillon one of the first systematic lists of causes of death ( Bertillon Classification, 1893 ) goes back, from the later of the published by the WHO ICD developed.