Oskar Johann Viktor Anderson (Russian: Оскар Николаевич Андерсон, romanized: Oskar Nikolayevich Anderson; 2 August [O.S. 21 July] 1887 – 12 February 1960) was a Russian-German mathematician of Baltic German descent. He is best known for his work on mathematical statistics and econometrics.
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| Born | Oskar Johann Viktor Anderson 2 August [O.S. 21 July] 1887 Minsk, Russian Empire |
| Died | February 12, 1960 (aged 72) Munich, Bavaria, West Germany |
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| Known for | Variate Difference Method |
| Spouse | Margarethe Natalie von Hindenburg-Hirtenberg[1] |
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| Thesis | (1912) |
Academic advisors | Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov |
Life
editAnderson was born into Baltic German family in Minsk in the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus), but soon moved to Kazan. His father, Nikolai Anderson, was professor in Finno-Ugric languages at the University of Kazan.[2] His older brothers were the folklorist Walter Anderson and the astrophysicist Wilhelm Anderson.[3]
Oskar Anderson graduated from Kazan Gymnasium with a gold medal in 1906. After studying mathematics for one year at Kazan Federal University, he moved to St. Petersburg to study economics at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.[4][5] From 1907 to 1915, he was Aleksandr Chuprov's student and assistant. In 1912, he married Margarethe Natalie von Hindenburg-Hirtenberg,[1] a granddaughter of Wilhelm Paul von Hindenburg-Hirtenberg,[6] who was commemorated in "The Funeral of 'The Universal Man'" in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's A Writer's Diary, and started lecturing at a commercial school in St. Petersburg while also studying for a law degree at Saint Petersburg State University, graduating in 1914.[1]
In 1918, he took on a professorship in Kiev but he was forced to flee Russia in 1920 due to the Russian Revolution, first taking a post in Budapest, Hungary, before becoming a professor at the University of Economics Varna in Bulgaria, in 1924.
Anderson was one of the charter members of the Econometric Society,[7] whose members also elected him to be a fellow of the society in 1933.[8][7] In the same year, he also received a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation.[9]
Supported by the foundation, in 1935 he established and became director of the Statistical Institute for Economic Research at Sofia University.[10] For the remainder of the decade, he also served the League of Nations as an associate member of its Committee of Statistical Experts.[11]
In 1942, he joined the Kiel Institute for the World Economy as the head of the Department of Eastern Studies and also took up a full professorship of statistics at Kiel University,[1] where he was joined by his brother Walter after the end of the Second World War. In 1947, he took a position at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, teaching there until 1956, when he retired.
Writings
edit- Einführung in die Mathematische Statistik, Vienna: Springer-Verlag, 1935, ISBN 978-3-7091-5873-9 [12]
- Über die repräsentative Methode und deren Anwendung auf die Aufarbeitung der Ergebnisse der bulgarischen landwirtschaftlichen Betriebszählung vom 31. Dezember 1926, Munich: Bayer. Statist. Landesamt, 1949
- Die Saisonschwankungen in der deutschen Stromproduktion vor und nach dem Kriege, Munich: Inst. f. Wirtschaftsforschung, 1950
External links
edit- Jörg Siebels; Kerstin Nees. "Oskar Anderson". Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Famous scholars from Kiel. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
- Newspaper clippings about Oskar Anderson in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
References
edit- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Strecker, Heinrich; Strecker, Rosemarie (2016). "Oskar Anderson". Encyclopedia of Mathematics. Springer-Verlag GmbH, Heidelberg.
- ↑ "Формулярный списокь (service record): Николай Андерсон (Nikolai Anderson)", Oskar Nikolaevich Anderson (1907-1912) (in Russian), St. Petersburg: Archives of the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute of the Emperor Peter the Great in the Central State Historical Archives of St. Petersburg, pp. 9–18, archived from the original on 2016-03-05, retrieved 2018-10-27
- ↑ Рафикова (Rafikova), Г. (G.); Ибрагимова (Ibrahimova), Ф. (F.) (2016). "Биографика Казанского университета: Андерсоны (Kazan University Biography: Anderson)". Гасырлар авазы – Эхо веков (in Russian). 2016 1/2.
- ↑ Оскар Николаевич Андерсон (1907-1912) / Oskar Nikolaevich Anderson (1907-1912) (in Russian), St. Petersburg: Archives of the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute of the Emperor Peter the Great in the Central State Historical Archives of St. Petersburg, TsGIASpb 478 1 64, archived from the original on 2016-03-05, retrieved 2018-10-27
- ↑ Андерсон Оскар Николаевич - стипендиат (1912-1914) / Oskar Nikolaevich Anderson - scholarship holder (1912-1914) (in Russian), St. Petersburg: Archives of the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute of the Emperor Peter the Great in the Central State Historical Archives of St. Petersburg, TsGIASpb 478 23 5, retrieved 2018-10-27
- ↑ Снапкоўскі, Юрый (2016). "ГІНДЭНБУРГІ, ПАСТОРЫУСЫ дэ ГІНДЭНБУРГІ (HINDENBURG, PASTORYUS de HINDENBURG) герба "БРОХВІЧ I"". Гербоўнік беларускай шляхты (in Belarusian). Vol. 4. pp. 372–379.
- 1 2 Fels, Eberhard (1961). "Oskar Anderson, 1887-1960". Econometrica. 29 (1): 74–79. doi:10.2307/1907689. JSTOR 1907689.
- ↑ "In Memoriam". List of Deceased Fellows of the Econometric Society. Retrieved April 4, 2019.
- ↑ Faure, Justine (2012), The Rockefeller Foundation Fellows in Social Sciences: Transnational Networks and Construction of Disciplines — The Example of East Central Europe, Rockefeller Archive Center
- ↑ Avramov, Roumen (September 2018). "Chapter 1: From Nationalization to Nowhere. Ownership in Bulgarian Economic Thought (1944–1989)". In Kovács, János Mátyás (ed.). Populating No Man's Land: Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 23–46. ISBN 978-1-4985-3921-0.
- ↑ "Report of Work in the Social Sciences" (PDF). The Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report 1937 (Report). The Rockefeller Foundation. 1938. p. 258. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
- ↑ Anderson, Oskar N. (1935). Einführung in die Mathematische Statistik (in German). Springer-Verlag Wien. doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-5923-1. Zbl 0012.11104.
Further reading
edit- Menges, Günter (1965). "Das Werk Oskar Andersons". FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis. New Series (in German). 24 (1): 126–130. JSTOR 40909833.
- Sheynin, O.B. (1970). "Anderson, Oskar Johann Viktor". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-0-684-10114-9.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (May 2000), "Oskar Johann Viktor Anderson", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews