August Meitzen

August Meitzen ( born December 16, 1822 in Breslau, † January 19, 1910 in Berlin ) was a German statistician and economist.

Life and work

August Meitzen visited in his home town, the Mary Magdalene School, where he was also a pupil of Ferdinand Lassalle. After graduation examination Meitzen began in Berlin and Breslau to study and successfully complete a PhD studies in spring 1848. In his dissertation Meitzen dealt with a representation of the watch industry of the Black Forest.

Then began Meitzen his career in various positions in the administration. Between 1853 and 1856 Meitzen held the office of mayor of Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains. Subsequently, he became the speakers of agricultural management issues in Wroclaw and held this office until 1865. So to speak, the way he devoted himself to agricultural history studies in the local State Archives; this made ​​Meitzen inter alia the acquaintance of Prof. Wilhelm Wattenbach, who supported him in his work.

1865 appointed one Meitzen to Berlin, in order to entrust to him the evaluation and subsequent processing of the results of a property tax assessment. Two years later, the Royal Prussian Statistical Bureau took Meitzen on as an employee until his discharge in 1872 he worked among others with the statistician Ernst Engel together. 1872 moved Meitzen the rank of Privy Council to the Imperial government statistical office of the German Empire. Meitzen held this office until 1882 and was held there for the most part involved the collection and analysis of agricultural, industrial and hydrographic data.

In 1875 he was associate professor of statistics and economics at the University of Berlin.

On his journeys across Europe Meitzen could continue his studies, which were then the basis for various publications. Meitzen found his final resting place after reburial on the West Stahnsdorf, Berlin.

Writings

• Documents Silesian villages in the "Codex diplomaticus Silesiae ", Vol 4 ( Bresl. 1863)
• The culture conditions of the Slavs before German colonization. Wroclaw 1864
• The spread of the Germans in Germany and their colonization of the Slavic territories. Jena 1879
• The floor and the agricultural conditions of the Prussian state. Berlin 1868/73 (4 vols )
• Topographic considerations on the construction of canals in Germany. Berlin 1870
• The question of Kanalbaues in Prussia. Leipzig 1885
• The joint responsibility of educated people for the welfare of the working classes. Berlin 1876
• The German House in its popular forms. Berlin 1882
• History, theory and technique of statistics. Berlin 1886