Oskar Anderson

Oskar Johann Viktor Anderson ( born August 2, 1887 in Minsk, Belarus, † February 12, 1960 in Munich) was a German economist and mathematician and one of the most influential statisticians of the 20th century.

Life

Oskar Anderson was born in Minsk in a German -born family ( his brothers were the famous folklorist Walter Anderson and astrophysicist William Anderson), and grew up in Kazan, where his father Nikolai Anderson was Professor of Finno -Ugric languages. From 1907 on, he studied economics in St. Petersburg, where he was a pupil and assistant of Alexander Tschuprow was until 1915. 1912 Anderson received his first academic post as a lecturer in St. Petersburg. In 1917 he moved to Kiev, where he habilitated in 1918. 1920 Anderson left Russia and lived first in Budapest ( Hungary), before he accepted in 1924 a professorship at the University of Economics Varna (Bulgaria), where he remained until 1933. From 1935 to 1940 he was a professor at the University of Sofia, where he held the post of Director of the Statistical Institute for Economic Research. During the Second World War, Oskar Anderson moved to Germany and taught from 1942 at the Christian- Albrechts-University of Kiel, where he was a professor until 1947. In 1947 he became professor of economics at the University of Munich.

Oskar Anderson is one of the most respected economists and statisticians of his time.

Writings

  • About the representative method and its application to the processing of the results of the Bulgarian agricultural census from December 31, 1926 Bayer. Statist. State Office. Munich, 1949
  • The seasonal variations in the German electricity production before and after the war, Inst Economic Research, Munich, 1950
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