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BLOCK, MAURICE (1816–19or)

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BLOCK, See also:MAURICE (1816–19or) , See also:French statistician, was See also:born in See also:Berlin of Jewish parents on the 18th of See also:February 1816. He studied at See also:Bonn and See also:Giessen, but settled in See also:Paris, becoming naturalized there. In 1844 he entered the French See also:ministry of See also:agriculture, becoming in 1852 one of the heads of the statistical See also:department. He retired in 1862, and thenceforth devoted him-self entirely to statistical studies, which have gained for him a wide reputation. He was elected a member of the Academie See also:des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 1880. He died in Paris on the 9th of See also:January Igor. His See also:principal See also:works are: Dictionnaire de l'See also:administration francaise (1856); Statistique de, la See also:France (186o); Dictionnaire See also:general de la politique (1862); L'See also:Europe politique et sociale (1869); Traite theorique et pratique de statistique (1878); See also:Les Progres de l'economie politique depuis See also:Adam See also:Smith (189o) ; he also edited from 1856 L'Annuaire de l'economie politique et de la statistique, and wrote in See also:German See also:Die Bevolkerung des franzosischen Kaiserreichs (1861); Die Bevolkerung Spaniens and Portugals (1861); and Die Machtstellung der europaischen Staaten (1862).

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