MAURICE BLOCK (1816–19or)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V04,
Page 72
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
MAURICE BLOCK (1816–19or)
, French statistician, was born in Berlin of Jewish parents on the 18th of February 1816
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He studied at Bonn and Giessen, but settled in Paris, becoming naturalized there
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In 1844 he entered the French ministry of agriculture, becoming in 1852 one of the heads of the statistical department
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He retired in 1862, and thenceforth devoted him-self entirely to statistical studies, which have gained for him a wide reputation
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He was elected a member of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 1880
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He died in Paris on the 9th of January Igor
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His principal works are: Dictionnaire de l' administration francaise (1856); Statistique de, la France (186o); Dictionnaire general de la politique (1862); L' Europe politique et sociale (1869); Traite theorique et pratique de statistique (1878); Les Progres de l'economie politique depuis Adam See also: - SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
(189o) ; he also edited from 1856 L'Annuaire de l'economie politique et de la statistique, and wrote in German Die Bevolkerung des franzosischen Kaiserreichs (1861); Die Bevolkerung Spaniens and Portugals (1861); and Die Machtstellung der europaischen Staaten (1862)
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