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August Meitzen

August Meitzen (German pronunciation: [ˈaʊɡʊst ˈmaɪtsn̩]; born 16 December 1822, in Breslau; died 19 January 1910, in Berlin) was a German statistician.

He was born in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) and educated at Heidelberg and Tübingen. He was a prominent member of the Statistical Bureau, and in 1875 was made an associate professor of political sciences (Staatswissenschaften) at the University of Berlin (honorary professor from 1892). Between 1889 and 1891, he advised Max Weber in his completion of his post-doctoral habilitation, a thesis that Weber titled Roman Agrarian History and Its Significance for Public and Private Law.

His contributions to the science of statistics include:

He also wrote:

He was the author of several biographies in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.

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