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Gottfried Achenwall 20 October — 1 May was a German philosopher, historian, economist, jurist and statistician. He is counted among the inventors of statistics. Beginning in he studied in the Jena , Halle , again Jena and Leipzig. In the years to , he worked as controller in Dresden. He was awarded his master's degree in by the philosophical faculty of Leipzig and went in the following to Marburg to work as assistant professor lecturing history, statistics, natural and international law.

In he again shifted fields, becoming a professor of natural law and politics, and in he became a doctor of both laws. In economics, he belonged to the school of "moderate mercantilists "; but it is in statistics that he holds his greatest renown. In this work, he gave a comprehensive view of the constitutions of the various countries, described the condition of their agriculture, manufactures and commerce, and frequently supplied statistics in relation to these subjects.

German economists claimed for him the title of "Father of Statistics"; but English writers disputed this, asserting that it ignored the prior claims of William Petty and other earlier writers on the subject. Achenwall gave currency to the term Staatswissenschaft politics , which he proposed should mean all the knowledge necessary to statecraft or statesmanship.

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