Anton Leo Hickmann

Anton Leo Hickmann was an Austrian geographer and statistician.

Biography

He was born on 23 March 1834 in Theresienstadt, Bohemia and died on 18 July 1906 in Vienna.
Hickmann studied geography in Prague University. After completing his habilitation, he studied languages and economics. After a brief function as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce in Eger, Hickmann became professor at Reichenberg, where he would work for about 30 years. He was one of the first to become a popular statistician.