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See also:ENGEL, See also:ERNST (1821-1896) , See also:German See also:political economist and statistician, was See also:born in See also:Dresden on the 21st of See also:March 1821. He studied at the famous See also:mining See also:academy of See also:Freiberg, in See also:Saxony, and on completing his curriculum travelled in See also:Germany and See also:France. Immediately after the revolution of 1848 he was attached to the royal See also:commission in Saxony appointed to deter-mine the relations between See also:trade and labour. In 185o he was directed by the See also:government to assist in the organization of the German See also:Industrial See also:Exhibition of See also:Leipzig (the first of its See also:kind). The success which crowned his efforts was so See also:great that in 1854 he was induced to enter the government service, as See also:chief of the newly instituted statistical See also:department. He retired, however, from the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in 1858. He founded at Dresden the first See also:Mortgage See also:Insurance Society (Hypotheken-Versicherungsgesellschaft), and as a result of the success of his See also:work was summoned in 186o to See also:Berlin as director of the statistical department, in See also:succession to Karl See also:Friedrich Wilhelm Dieterici (1790-1859). In his new office he made himself a name of See also:world-wide reputation. Raised to the See also:rank of Geheimer Regierungsrat, he retired in 1882 and lived henceforward in Radebeul near Dresden, where he died on the 8th of See also:December 1896. Engel was a voluminous writer on the subjects with which his name is connected, but his statistical papers are mostly published in the See also:periodicals which he himself established, viz. Preuss. Statistik (in 1861); Zeitschrift See also:des Statistischen Bureaus, and Zeitschrift des Statistichen Bureaus des Konigreichs Sachsen.
End of Article: ENGEL, ERNST (1821-1896)
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