Giorgio Mortara

Mortara Giorgio 1885, Mantua(Italy) – 1967, Rio de Janeiro(Brasil) was an Italian statistician

Statistician, economist and demographer (Mantua 1885 - Rio de Janeiro 1967), professor in University of Messina (1909–14), Rome (1915–24) and Milan (1924–38) and director of the Giornale degli economisti (1910–38). He lived for a period (1907–1908) in Berlin where he worked with L. von Bortkiewicz on probability theory and particularly on the law of rare events. He is famous also for the construction of statistical indices for measuring the conjuntural effects (economic barometers). Forced to leave Italy in 1939 for racial reasons, he moved to Brazil, where he was technical advisor of the National Census (1939–48) and then of the National Council of Statistics where he directed the laboratory (1949–57) and where he created a flourishing school of demography. In 1954 he was nominated president of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, of which he became (1957) Honorary President. In 1956 he returned to teach to the University of Rome of which he was appointed professor emeritus in 1961. He became member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (1947). Among the many works, very well known for his Prospettive economiche (15 vols., 1921–37), valued source of information about the history of those years, and university courses. For a deep biography, see A. Baffigi and M. Magnani, Banca d’Italia, 2008.

Education

Degree in Law in 1905 at University of Naples with a dissertation on Demography

Academic Positions

Professor in University of (1909–14), Rome (1915–24) Milan (1924–38) and Bocconi.

Honours,Awards

Honorary Presiddent of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Professor emeritus in University of Rome (1961).

Publications

• Statistica economica e demografica (1920);
• Prospettive economiche (1921–37);
• Le popolazioni delle grandi città italiane (1908);
• Lezioni di statistica metodologica (1922);
• La salute pubblica in Italia durante e dopo la guerra (1925);
• Sui metodi per lo studio della fecondità dei matrimoni, Giornale degli economisti (1933);
• La realtà economica (1934);
• L'Economia della popolazione (1960);
• Raccolta di Saggi di metodologia demografica (1963);
• Previsioni sull’incremento della popolazione nel mondo, L’industria (1958).

Link

https://sites.google.com/site/dizionariosis/dizionario-statistico/statistici-i-j-l-m/mortara-giorgio http://sis-statistica.it/files/pdf/2009/Mortara.pdf

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Name	Mortara, Giorgio
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Date of birth	1885
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Date of death	1967
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