[Ritter]. Austrian statistician and geographer, born on the 11th of February 1834, at Brònn, Austria. He took courses in law, philosophy and political economy at the University of Vienna, and when nineteen years of age published The States of Europe, a work valuable for its statistics of political geography. His election to the professorship of statistics and of constitutional and administrative law in the Technical School of Vienna took place in 1863. In 1872 he was made the president of the newly created governmental Department of Statistics. Among his later books may be mentioned The Empire of Austria; The Kingdom of Prussia and of the Secondary States of Germany; Switzerland; Italy; and Turkey and Greece.
