Kazimierz Władysław Kumaniecki – inicjator powstania Polskiego Towarzystwa Statystycznego

Abstract

Kazimierz Władysław Kumaniecki was a lawyer specialised in administrative and constitutional law and a statistician. He was the initiator and co-founder of the Polish Statistical Association, established in Kraków in 1912. The aim of the paper is to present Kumaniecki’s scientific achievements and organisational activity, focusing on his involvement in public issues, the areas of his scientific interests and his views. Kumaniecki is regarded as one of the creators of the Polish statistical thought. His statistical research, especially in the field of demography, economics, finance and law contributed to the better understanding of social and economic issues in Poland. In the framework of the activity of the Polish Statistical Association, Kumaniecki and Adam Krzyżanowski compiled a set of statistical information published as a book entitled Statistics of Poland (Pol. Statystyka Polski) published in 1915. This work’s special value lies in the fact that it presented the social and economic development in all the three partitions of Poland.