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Gottfried Achenwall
German philosopher and historian
Gottfried Achenwall (20 October 1719 – 1 May 1772) was a German philosopher, historian, economist, jurist and statistician.
He is counted among the inventors of statistics.
Gottfried achenwall biography of william
Biography
Achenwall was born in Elbing (Elbląg)[1][2] in the Polish province of Royal Prussia.[3] Beginning in 1738 he studied in the Jena, Halle, again Jena and Leipzig.
In the years 1743 to 1746, he worked as controller in Dresden. He was awarded his master's degree in 1746 by the philosophical faculty of Leipzig and went in the following to Marburg to work as assistant professor lecturing history, statistics, natural and international law.
In 1748 he was called to the University of Göttingen to become extraordinary professor of philosophy, and in 1753 he became an extraordinary professor of law and regular professor of philosophy. In 1761 he again shifted fields, becoming a professor of natural law and politics, and i