Gottfried Achenwall
| Date | 1719 – 1772 |
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| Biographical Notes | German philosopher, historian, economist and statistician, professor at the University of Göttingen. Together with his former pupil August Ludwig Schlözer (1735-1809) Achenwall was one of the inventors of modern statistics, and coined the term Staatswissenschaft. See Justin Stagl, A History of Curiosity (1995), 88, 246. |
| Work(s) | author of Vorbereitung zur Staatswissenschaft (1749) in Abriss der neuesten Staatswissenschaft der vornehmsten europäischen Reiche und Republicken zum Gebrauch in seinen Academischen Vorlesungen |