• Gottfried Achenwall (20 October 1719 – 1 May 1772) was a German philosopher, historian, economist, jurist and statistician. He is counted among the inventors...
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  • thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, Lewis Mumford, Emyr Hughes, and Gottfried Achenwall who have attempted to apply (or argue against the use of) physics...
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    1700. The poet Christian Wernicke was born in 1661 in Elbląg, while Gottfried Achenwall became famous for his teachings in natural law and human rights law...
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    collection of facts and information about a state, it was the German Gottfried Achenwall in 1749 who started using the term as a collection of quantitative...
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  • ("statesman" or "politician"). The German Statistik, first introduced by Gottfried Achenwall (1749), originally designated the analysis of data about the state...
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  • Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (died 1800) October 20 – Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (died 1772) November 17 – Marie Marguerite Bihéron...
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  • English politician, First Lord of the Treasury (b. 1669) 1772 – Gottfried Achenwall, Polish-German historian, economist, and jurist (b. 1719) 1813 –...
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  • Gordon, Duchess of Gordon, Scottish aristocrat (d. 1779) 1719 – Gottfried Achenwall, German historian, economist, and jurist (d. 1772) 1740 – Isabelle...
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    Jacobi, the writer Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, the duc de Choiseul, and Gottfried Achenwall, the statistician. After his European tour, he joined the Danish...
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    he joined the University of Halle, where he became friends with Gottfried Achenwall, and completed his legal studies at the University of Jena. In 1744...
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