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Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Dieterici (23 August 1790 – 30 July 1859) was a German
political economist Political economy is the study of how economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and political systems (e.g. law, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied phenomena within the discipline are systems such as labour ...
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Biography

Dieterici was born and died in
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in Blücher's army from 1813 to 1815, was engaged in the Ministry of Public Instruction, became professor of political science in the
University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative ...
, and in 1844 was placed at the head of the statistical bureau. He published a number of important works on political economy and
statistics Statistics (from German: ''Statistik'', "description of a state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, indust ...
, among which may be mentioned: ''De Via et Ratione Œconomiam Politicam Docendi'' and ''Statistische Uebersicht der wichtigsten Gegenstände des Verkehrs und Verbrauchs im preussischen Staat und im deutschen Zollverband'' (1838).


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* 1790 births 1859 deaths German economists German statisticians Scientists from Berlin Humboldt University of Berlin faculty {{Germany-economist-stub