Ernst Engel

Christian Lorenz Ernst Engel ( born March 26, 1821 in Dresden, † December 8, 1896 in Serkowitz ) was a German statistician and social economist.

Life and work

Ernst Engel studied from 1842 to 1845 at the Mining Academy Freiberg. At subsequent study visits, he met the statistician Adolphe Quételet know.

Ernst Engel was 1850-1858 Board of the Royal Saxon Statistical Office and from 1860 as the successor of Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Dieterici director of the Royal Prussian Statistical Bureau. After a conflict with Otto von Bismarck in 1882 he finished this activity. Engel was a founding member of the International Statistical Congress and from 1867 to 1870 a member of the Prussian House of Representatives. From 1867 to 1871 he served as delegates of the constituency Regierungsbezirk Aachen 1 ( Schleiden - Malmedy) member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation.

From 1882 he lived in retirement at the Villa Angel in Serkowitz, today district of Radebeul, but continued his research. He was also chairman of the waterworks Neubrunn and in Verschönerungsverein the Loessnitz active. Engel died 1896 in Serkowitz and was buried in the Trinity Cemetery in Dresden.

Angels examined numerous statistics in the field of consumption and demographics. So he put on the Engelsche law. According to him, the angels curve was named.

Works

  • The Productions and Consumtionsverhältnisse of the Kingdom of Saxony. In: Journal of the Statistical Bureau of the Royal Saxon Ministry of the Interior. Nos. 8 and 9, 1857. ( Digitized at Gallica )
  • The methods of the census., 1861.
  • The Industrial Study and trade count in the German Empire and the Prussian state at the end of the year 1875. Simion, Berlin 1878 ( digitized the University of Cologne )
  • The German industry in 1875 and 1861. Statistical representation of the distribution of their branches over the individual states of the German Empire, with emphasis Prussia. Royal. Stat. Bureau, Berlin in 1880. ( Digitized at the University of Cologne)
  • The age of the steam in technical and statistical lighting. 2nd edition. Royal. Stat. Bureau, Berlin, 1881. ( Digitized at the University of Cologne)
  • La consommation comme mesure du bien -être of individus, des familles et des nations. In: Bulletin de l' Institut International de Statistique 2.1, 1887, pp. 50-75. . ( Digitized at Gallica )
  • The cost of living Belgian Workers' families before and now. Calculated from family accounts and comparative compiled. In: Bulletin de l' Institut International de Statistique. 9.1., 1895, pp. 1-124. ( Digitized at Gallica )
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