Giammaria Ortes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Giammaria Ortes

Italian composer and academic

Date of Birth: 02-Mar-1713

Place of Birth: Venice, Venetian Province, Italy

Date of Death: 22-Jul-1790

Profession: composer, mathematician, economist, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Abbé Giovanni Maria Ortes (March 1713 – 1790) was a Venetian composer, economist, mathematician, Camaldolese monk, and philosopher.
He is better known for his population predictions that preceded those of Malthus. Ortes belonged to the Camaldolese monastic order.
He was probably the first person, according to Adam Ferguson, to use the term "economics" for the science in which he exercised a remarkable activity, particularly in his works Economia Nazionale (1774) and Riflessioni sulla popolazione (1790), which along with other of his works were reprinted in Pietro Custodi's anthologies "Scrittori classici italiani di economia politica" (1802–16).
He was opposed to mercantilism. He anticipated certain doctrines of Adam Smith and Thomas Robert Malthus, especially the latter, as he felt that the population propagation, if it were allowed free rein, would take place in a geometric progression with a doubling every 30 years.
No one knows exactly how he died.