Anton Leo Hickmann


Anton Leo Hickmann was a geographer and statistician.

Biography

He was born on March 23, 1834 in Terezin, Bohemia and died on July 18, 1906 in Vienna.
Hickmann studied geography in Prague University. After completing his habilitation, he studied languages and economics. After a brief function as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce in Eger, Hickmann becomes Professor at Reichenberg, where he would work for about 30 years. He was one of the first to become a popular statistician.