Georg von Mayr

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Georg Ritter von Mayr[lower-alpha 1] (12 February 1841 – 6 September 1925) was a German statistician and economist.

Biography

Georg Mayr was born in Würzburg, the son of Aloys Mayr, a mathematician and professor at the University of Würzburg. He studied in Munich and habilitated at the University of Munich in 1865.

In 1868 he became an associate professor and in 1869 he succeeded his academic teacher Friedrich von Hermann as head of the Statistical Bureau. Later, he became a ministerial councilor, as which he founded the Journal of the Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau in 1869, in which he published numerous works, mostly related to population statistics.

The star chart was first used by Mayr in 1877.[1]

Mayr was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit in 1879 and in the course of this was raised to the personal peerage. Appointed Imperial Undersecretary of State in the Alsatian Ministry in Strasbourg in September 1879, he resigned in 1887 and then lived in Munich. On December 6, 1913, he became rector of the Ludwig Maximilian University. Mayr was one of the signers of the Manifesto of the 93 in 1914.

Georg von Mayr died in Tutzing.[2]

Works

  • Die Organisation der amtlichen Statistik (1876)
  • Die Gesetzmäßigkeit im Gesellschaftsleben (1877)
  • Das Deutsche Reich und das Tabaksmonopol (1878)
  • Bevölkerungsstatistik (1897)
  • Theoretische Statistik (1914)
  • "Statistik und Politik, insbesondere Verwaltungsstatistik". In: Handbuch der Politik (1914)
  • Moralstatistik mit Einschluß der Kriminalstatistik (1917)

Notes

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Regarding personal names: Ritter is a title, translated approximately as Sir (denoting a Knight), not a first or middle name. There is no equivalent female form.

Citations

  1. ↑ Mayr, Georg von (1877). Die Gesetzmäßigkeit im Gesellschaftsleben. München: Oldenbourg, p. 78. Also see Friendly, Michael (2005). "Milestones in the history of data visualization: A case study in statistical historiography." In: C. Weihs and W. Gaul, eds., Classification: The Ubiquitous Challenge. New York: Springer, pp. 34–52.
  2. ↑ Die Kleine Enzyklopädie in zwei Bänden. 2 Zürich: Encyclios-Verlag (1950), p. 136.

References

  • Aldenhoff, Rita (1990). "Mayr, Georg von." In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). 16. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 561–63.
  • "Mayr, Georg." In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. 11. Leipzig/Wien: Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts (1885–1892), p. 378.

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