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Wilhelm Lexis

1837 - 1914

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Wilhelm Lexis (17 July 1837, Eschweiler, Germany – 24 August 1914, Göttingen, Germany), full name Wilhelm Hector Richard Albrecht Lexis, was a German statistician, economist, and social scientist. The Oxford Dictionary of Statistics cites him as a "pioneer of the analysis of demographic time series". Lexis is largely remembered for two items that bear his name—the Lexis ratio and the Lexis diagram. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Lexis is the 267th most popular economist (down from 261st in 2019), the 4,170th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,948th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 267 out of 414. Before him are Jörg Meuthen, Georg Friedrich Knapp, Roy Harrod, Joshua Angrist, Leopold von Wiese, and Alfred Müller-Armack. After him are Alexander Chayanov, Diego Abad de Santillán, Maurice Dobb, Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, and Alexander Gerschenkron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 85. Before him are Jacob Maris, Ignatz Kolisch, Robert Gould Shaw, Jorge Isaacs, Charles Yerkes, and Mubarak Al-Sabah. After him are Francis Marrash, Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar, Ralph Copeland, Artur Grottger, and Thomas Moran. Among people deceased in 1914, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 98. Before him are Hubertine Auclert, Jacob Riis, Jules Lemaître, Antun Gustav Matoš, Itō Sukeyuki, and Koos de la Rey. After him are Carl Theodore Liebermann, Józef Chełmoński, Frederick Lorz, Géza Fejérváry, Peyo Yavorov, and Paul Mauser.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 4,172 out of 7,253. Before him are Alfred Müller-Armack (1901), Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg (1682), Alfred Bickel (1918), Johann Karl Burckhardt (1773), Ruth Fischer (1895), and Cordelia Edvardson (1929). After him are Wolfgang Flür (1947), Walburga Habsburg Douglas (1958), Johann Theile (1646), Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842), Frederick Loewe (1901), and Sibylla of Anhalt (1564).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Wilhelm Lexis ranks 32. Before him are Adam Müller (1779), Andreas Kaplan (1977), Étienne Laspeyres (1834), Jörg Meuthen (1961), Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842), and Alfred Müller-Armack (1901). After him are Theodore Levitt (1925), Karl Knies (1821), Alice Salomon (1872), Ludwig Lachmann (1906), W. Michael Blumenthal (1926), and Robin Hanson (1959).

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