August Meitzen (born 16 December 1822, in Breslau; died 19 January 1910, in Berlin) was a German statistician.

Biography

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).^[1]

Works

His contributions to the science of statistics include:

• Die internationale land- und forstwirtschaftliche Statistik ("International statistics on land and forest management"; 1873).
• Geschichte, Theorie und Technik der Statistik ("History, theory and technique of statistics"; 1886).

He also wrote:

• Der Boden und die landwirthschaftlichen Verhältnisse des Preussischen Staates ("The soil and the agricultural conditions of the Prussian state"; 8 volumes and 2 atlases, 1868–1908).
• Die Mitverantwortlichkeit der Gebildeten für das Wohl der arbeitenden Klassen (The obligation of the educated to the well-being of the working classes; 1876).
• Siedelung und Agrarwesen der Westgermanen und Ostgermanen, der Kelten, Römer, Finnen und Slawen ("Settlement and agriculture of the west and east Germans, the Celts, Romans, Finns and Slavs"; 1895).^[2][3]

He was the author of several biographies in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.^[4]