Johann Peter Süssmilch
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Johann Peter Süßmilch (September 3, 1707 in Zehlendorf - March 22, 1767 in Berlin) was a German priest, statistician and demographer.
He studied medicine and theology at the University of Jena and 1741 was an army chaplain in the First Silesian War. On Sunday, 13 August 1741, the former field preacher gave his inaugural sermon as pastor of community Etzin and his branch Knoblauch. [1] Then he did from 1742 service as Provost Oberkonsistorialrat in Berlin-Cölln (St.-Petri community) 1745 and was a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. He had contacts with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Immanuel Kant.
Johann Peter Süßmilchs main workThe Divine order in the circumstances of the human sex, birth, death and reproduction proved the same.Which he 1741 wrote, is regarded as wegbereitendes and pioneering work in the history of Population statistics, with which he is the reputation of the father of German statistical demographics acquired. In this book tries fresh milk by demonstrating Constance massenstatistischer characteristics as an expression of the will of God of the population provide evidence of its existence. He himself refers in his work on Kaspar Neumann work, in which it is already in the years 1687-1691 Wroclaw a monthly list of notes and died in age and cause of death noted.
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- The Royal Residence Berlin Wachsthum and faster construction, 1752 (Digitalisat)
- The Divine order in the changes in the human sex from birth, death and reproduction of the same, 2 parts, 1761-1762 (Digitalisat demography/demography/suessmilch_1761 Part 1, Part 2)
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| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Süssmilch, Johann Peter |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | German priest and statistician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1707 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zehlendorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1767 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Berlin |
