Louis Israel Dublin

Louis Israel Dublin (November 1, 1882 – March 7, 1969) was a U.S. statistician. As vice president and statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Dublin promoted progressive and socially useful insurance underwriting policies. [2 NIH http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1226577&pageindex=1] As a scholar he was an important figure in the establishment of demography as a social-scientific discipline in the United States during the 1920's and 1930's. [3 NIH http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1226577&pageindex=1] Dublin was interested in eugenics but as a Jew of recent immigrant extraction, criticized eugenicistsfor equating biological superiority with Nordic origins. [4 Edmund Ramsden, Social Demography and Eugenics in the Interwar United States. "Population and Development Review", Vol. 29, No. 4. (Dec., 2003), pp. 547-593.]

Dublin was born in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. He came to the U.S. in 1886 with his parents Max and Sarah (Rosensweig). Dublin obtained his bachelor's in 1901 at City College of New York. He earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1904. He married Augusta Salik on April 5, 1908. Dublin taught at Yale as a lecturer in vital statistics, and in 1924 served as president of the American Statistical Association.

He died in Orange, Florida at the age of 87.

Major works

*Louis Israel Dublin, Alfred J. Lotka: "The Money Value of a Man" (Public Health in America Series). New York : Arno Press, 1977 (Repr. of the 1930 ed. by the Ronald Press Co., New York). ISBN 978-0-405-09814-7
*with Lee K. Frankel and Miles M. Dawson, "Workingmen's Insurance in Europe", 1910 [1 Who's Who]
*with Lee K. Frankel, "Principles of Life Insurance", 1911 [1 Who's Who]
*"Mortality Statistics of Insured Wage Earners and Their Families", 1919 [1 Who's Who]
*Louis I. Dublin, "A Family of Thirty Million: The Story of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company", 1943. [2 LOC]
*Louis I. Dublin,"The Facts of Life: From Birth to Death", New York: The Macmillan Company, 1951. [2]
*"A 40 Year Campaign Against Tuberculosis", 1952 [2 LOC]

Other works

*Louis I. Dublin, “Home-Making and Careers,” "Atlantic Monthly", 138: 335-43, September 1926.

References

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General

* Marquis, Albert Nelson, ed. "Who’s Who in America, a Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of the United States", 1926-1927, vol. 14, Chicago: The A.N. Marquis Company, 1926, 624.

External links

* [http://www.amstat.org/about/statisticians/bios/dublinlouis.pdf American Statistical Association's biography (PDF file)]
* [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/manuscripts/ead/dublin.html Finding Aid to the Louis I. Dublin Papers]
* [http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search%5FArg=dublin%2C%20louis&Search%5FCode=NAME%5F&CNT=25&PID=29254&BROWSE=1&HC=71&SID=1 Library of Congress listing of Louis I. Dublin publications]