Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ladislaus Bortkiewicz

Russian economist and statistician

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1868

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 15-Jul-1931

Profession: professor, mathematician, economist, statistician

Nationality: Poland, Russia, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz (7 August 1868 – 15 July 1931) was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish ancestry.
He wrote a book showing how the Poisson distribution, a discrete probability distribution, can be useful in applied statistics, and he made contributions to mathematical economics.
He lived most of his professional life in Germany, where he taught at Strassburg University (Privatdozent, 1895–1897) and Berlin University (1901–1931).