# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-lexis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:13:35.584Z

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name: "Wilhelm Lexis"
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description: "Wilhelm Lexis, full name Wilhelm Hector Richard Albrecht Lexis, was a German statistician, economist, and social scientist. The Oxford Dictionary of Statistics cites him as a \"pioneer of the analysis of demographic time series\". Lexis is largely remembered for two items that bear his name—the Lexis ratio and the Lexis diagram."
tagline: "German statistician and economist (1837–1914)"
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birthDate: "1837-07-17"
deathDate: "1914-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump