József Kőrösy
1844–1906
Hungarian statistician. After working as a journalist, writing on economics, he was appointed director of the newly formed statistical office in Pest in 1869. The office became the statistical office for the new city of Budapest in 1873. Reader in demography, University of Budapest, 1883. He developed the first ‘natality’, or fertility, tables and contributed to the construction of mortality tables.
Source
International encyclopedia of the social sciences
Bibliography
International encyclopedia of the social sciences. Edited by David L. Sills. Assistant editor, V. N. Ponomarev. 19 vols. New York: Macmillan. [1968–91.]
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