August Meitzen


August Meitzen was a German statistician.

Biography

He was born in Breslau 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 at the University of Berlin. 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.

Works

His contributions to the science of statistics include:
  • Die internationale land- und forstwirtschaftliche Statistik.
  • Geschichte, Theorie und Technik der Statistik.
He also wrote:
  • Der Boden und die landwirthschaftlichen Verhältnisse des Preussischen Staates.
  • Die Mitverantwortlichkeit der Gebildeten für das Wohl der arbeitenden Klassen.
  • Siedelung und Agrarwesen der Westgermanen und Ostgermanen, der Kelten, Römer, Finnen und Slawen.
He was the author of several biographies in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.