Karl Theodor Ferdinand Michael von Inama-Sternegg ( German: Karl Theodor Ferdinand Michael von Inama-Sternegg ; January 20, 1843 , Augsburg - November 28, 1908 , Innsbruck , Tyrol , Austria-Hungary ) - German and Austrian statistician , demographer and historian (economic history historical demography).
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| Known as | first in the world introduced census data processing by electric calculating machines |
| Awards and prizes | Honorary Doctor |
He received a historical and legal education and a doctorate in public sciences from the University of Munich . Since 1868, a professor at the University of Innsbruck , occupying the Department of Political Science. In 1880 he moved to Charles University .
In 1881, he took over the management of administrative statistics in Vienna , and at the same time since 1881 he served as professor at the University of Vienna . Appointed in 1884 as president of the Central Statistical Commission ( Vienna ) [3] , he reformed almost all branches of government statistics. During the 1890 census in Austria-Hungary, Inama-Sterneg introduced the world's first processing of statistical data by electric calculating machines .
In political economy, he was a representative of the historical direction . His most important works, the number of which is very significant, are devoted to the development of the economic history of Germany, in particular the history of land ownership, and gave an original explanation of the emergence and development of land relations in medieval Germany. [four]
Numerous journal articles by Inam-Sterneg are devoted to the history of economic life, statistics and issues of contemporary economic policy. Since 1892, Inama-Sterneg has been closely involved in the publication Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft, Sozialpolitik und Verwaltung.
The work of Inam-Sterneg (Österreichische Statistik, Statistisches Handbuch) made a particularly significant contribution to statistics. From 1899 until the end of his life, he was President of the International Institute of Statistics . He was elected an honorary member of the Royal Statistical Society .
In Russian historical science, K. T. von Inama-Sterneg is known today as a painstaking and thorough researcher of the enormous demographic losses in the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany , the Czech Republic , Silesia , etc.) as a result of the Thirty Years War [5] .
Monographs
- Deutsche Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 3 Bände (1879, 1891, 1901)
- Deutsche Wirtschaftgeschichte. I: bis zum Schluss der Karolingerperiode. Leipzig, 1909. Neu brosch. xxxviii + 755 Ss.
(see Antiqbook )
- Neue Probleme des modernen Kulturlebens. Leipzig, Duncker und Humblot, 1908. VI + 314 S. (see Antiqbook (link not available) )
- Tirolischen Weistümer, Bände 1-3. Wien, 1875-1880 (zusammen mit I. von Zingerle )
- Die Ausbildung der grossen Grundherrschaften in Deutschland w ährend der Karolingerzeit (1878)
- Untersuchungen über das Hofsystem im Mittelalter (1872)
- Ueber die Emanzipation der Frauen (1869)
- Die Tendenz der Grossstaatenbildung in der Gegenwart (1869)
- Idealismus und Realismus in der Nationalökonomie (1873)
- Adam Smith und die Bedeutung seiner Wealth of nations (1876)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118555561 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ KK Statistische Zentralkommission, Statistik Austria (Geschichte)
- ↑ History as a science. B. Weber and K. Dobrolyubsky (p. 80)
- ↑ Thirty Years War (1618–1648)
Links
- Bust of Inama-Sterneg in one of the arcades of Vienna University
- Dr. von Inama-Sternegg . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 71, No. 4 (Dec., 1908), pp. 649—651
- Inama-Sternegg, Karl Theodor Von // The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979)
- Danilov A. I. Problems of the agrarian history of the early Middle Ages in German historiography of the late XIX - early XX centuries. Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, M., 1958, 368 p.