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Born in Eschweiler as the son of a physician, Lexis obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Heidelberg, where he was an assistant of the famous Chemist Robert Bunsen. He then worked as a Gymnasium teacher, librarian, and journalistA journalist is a person who practices journalism that is, who creates reports as a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines, documentary film, and the Internet. Origin and scope of the term In, until in 1872Events January 2 Brigham Young, is arrested for bigamy (25 wives). February 20 In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens. March 1 Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park March 5 George Westinghouse patents t he became, until 1874Events January 1 New York City annexes The Bronx January 23 Marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, to Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, only daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia. January Signing of the Pangkor Tr, extraordinary professorA professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. Overview Professors give lectures and seminars in their field of study, such as science or literature. They also do advanced research in their fields and are supposed to d at the newly-refounded German-language ImperialImperial is a term that is used to describe something that relates to an Empire, Emperor, or the concept of Imperialism. Imperial is also the name of several places in the United States of America: Imperial, California Imperial, Missouri Imperial, Nebrask University of Straßburg . In 1874Events January 1 New York City annexes The Bronx January 23 Marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, to Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, only daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia. January Signing of the Pangkor Tr- 1876Events January events January 31 The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations. February events February 2 The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed. February 14 Alexander Graham Bell a, he taught at the University of TartuThe University of Tartu (Estonian: Tartu Ulikool is the national university of Estonia, and the one classical university in Estonia, located in the city of Tartu. The University of Tartu is a member of the Coimbra Group, and was established by King Gustav, then at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, since 1884 at the University of Breslau , and from 1887 at the University of Göttingen, which was his final appointment. He died in Göttingen.

Although the author of an Allgemeine Volkswirtschaftslehre (general economics book) (1910) and certainly a distinguished economist, even a pioneer of Law and Economics thinking and of the study of consumption and crises, Lexis is today primarily known as a statistician, and maybe particularly as a demographer . He is also one of the founding fathers of the interdisciplinary, professional study of insurance. A Kathedersozialist , he was closely affiliated with academic policy makers in Prussia and one of Friedrich Althoff ’s experts and the editor of important works on German higher education, most famously the six-volume Das Unterrichtswesen im Deutschen Reich, compiled for the St. Louis World's Fair of that year and still the key reference work for that time. Lexis' theoretical works on social science epistemology are largely forgotten but very relevant today.