Robert Kuczynski

Infobox_Scientist
name = Robert René Kuczynski
birth_date = 1876
birth_place = Berlin, German Empire
death_date = 25.11.1947
death_place = Oxford, Great Britain
residence = Germany, Great Britain
nationality = Germany
field = Economist, Demographer
work_institution = Berlin Handelsschule, Brookings Institution, London School of Economics, Colonial Office
alma_mater = Universities of Berlin, Freiburg, Strasbourg and Munich
doctoral_advisor = Lujo Brentano
known_for = Kuczynski rates, figures on the extent of the slave trade

Robert René Kuczynski (1876–1947) was a German-based, Jewish economist and demographer and is said to be one of the founders of modern vital statistics. He studied at the universities of Berlin, Munich, Freiburg and Strasburg and made his doctoral dissertation in 1897. After it he worked for the United States Census Office and different German statistical offices. In 1933, after Hitler had come to power, Kuczynski left Germany and went with around 20.000 book (half of the large family library) to Great Britain. There he held lectures at the London School of Economics and became later advisor for the British Colonial office. His most noted work was in the 1930s when he published figures on the extent of the slave trade between Africa and the Americas over the preceding three centuries. His figure of 15,000,000 million slaves became widely used by other researchers, but is no longer thought to be correct. Kuczynski and wife Berta had six children. Among them the GDR-economist Juergen Kuczynski and one of the most successful secret agents of the twentieth century Ruth Werner.

Works by Kuczynski

* Kuczynski, Robert René; American Loans to Germany, With the Aid of the Council and Staff of the Institute of Economics in Washington, 378 pages, publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York, September 1927
* Kuczynski, Robert René; Banker's Profits from German loans, publisher: The Brookings Institution, First Edition, Institute of Economics in Washington, Publication 41, 228 Seiten Washington,1932.

References

*Chapter 1 of "The Final Victims : Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783–1810" by James A. McMillin, USC Press 2004, ISBN 1-57003-546-6
*Excerpt from "Demography as Policy Science in the British Empire, 1918-1969" Karl Ittmann in "Journal of Policy History" - Volume 15, Number 4, 2003, pp. 417-448
* [http://www.ith.or.at/ith_e/kuczynski_index_e.htm information about the R. Kuczynski Price]
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0952-8385%281947%29110%3A4%3C383%3ARRK1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O Obituary in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 110, No. 4. (1947), pp. 383-384]

Persondata
NAME=Kuczynski, Robert René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Economist
DATE OF BIRTH=1876
PLACE OF BIRTH=Berlin, German Empire
DATE OF DEATH=November 27 1947
PLACE OF DEATH=Oxford, Great Britain