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Ladislaus Bortkiewicz

1868 - 1931

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Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz (Russian Владислав Иосифович Борткевич, German Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz or Ladislaus von Bortkewitsch) (7 August 1868 – 15 July 1931) was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish ancestry. He wrote a book showing how the Poisson distribution, a discrete probability distribution, can be useful in applied statistics, and he made contributions to mathematical economics. He lived most of his professional life in Germany, where he taught at Strassburg University (Privatdozent, 1895–1897) and Berlin University (1901–1931). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ladislaus Bortkiewicz is the 300th most popular economist (down from 299th in 2019), the 1,737th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,747th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz ranks 300 out of 414. Before him are Paul Sweezy, Zbigniew Messner, Abhijit Banerjee, Gordon Tullock, Inger Andersen, and Kenichi Ohmae. After him are Jesús Huerta de Soto, Philippe Van Parijs, Haruhiko Kuroda, Armen Alchian, Anthony Downs, and Santiago Peña.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz ranks 167. Before him are Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, Prosper Poullet, José Serrato, Edgar Adams, Ștefan Luchian, and Reynold A. Nicholson. After him are Charles Wallace Richmond, John Sealy Townsend, Albert William Herre, Kenjirō Tokutomi, Grace Chisholm Young, and Guy de la Chapelle. Among people deceased in 1931, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz ranks 121. Before him are Richard Wettstein, Albert Capellani, Eugen Schmidt, Emilio Aceval, David Belasco, and Elsa Laula Renberg. After him are Curt von François, William Frederick Denning, Victor Bérard, Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, Kinue Hitomi, and Cesare Burali-Forti.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz ranks 1,737 out of 3,761. Before him are Fyodor Abramov (1920), Nikolay Burdenko (1876), Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Anatoli Maslyonkin (1930), Boris Grigoriev (1886), and Vitaly Bianki (1894). After him are Oleg Atkov (1949), Gennady Khazanov (1945), Abdul-Halim Sadulayev (1966), Boris Shilkov (1927), Alexander Belov (1951), and Nikolai Semashko (1874).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Russia

Among economists born in Russia, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz ranks 7. Before him are Leonid Hurwicz (1917), Nikolay Danilevsky (1822), Eugen Slutsky (1880), Petr Aven (1955), and Alexander Chayanov (1888). After him are Leonid Abalkin (1930), Arkady Dvorkovich (1972), Tatyana Golikova (1966), Andrei Shleifer (1961), and Olga Golodets (1962).

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