Louis Israel Dublin

Louis Israel Dublin
Louis Israel Dublin
Born	November 1, 1882 Kaunas), Lithuania
Died	March 7, 1969
Nationality	United States
Education	Columbia University

Louis Israel Dublin (November 1, 1882 – March 7, 1969) was a Jewish American statistician. As vice president and statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Dublin promoted progressive and socially useful insurance underwriting policies.^[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 1920s and 1930's.^[2] Dublin was interested in eugenics but as a Jew of recent immigrant extraction, criticized eugenicists

for equating biological superiority with Nordic origins.^[3]

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.

1 Major works
2 Other works
3 References
- 3.1 Inline
- 3.2 General
4 External links

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^[4]
with Lee K. Frankel, Principles of Life Insurance, 1911^[4]
Mortality Statistics of Insured Wage Earners and Their Families, 1919^[4]
Louis I. Dublin, To Be or Not to Be: a Study of Suicide, 1933. Harrison Smith and Robert Hass, New York.
Louis I. Dublin, A Family of Thirty Million: The Story of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1943.^[5]
Louis I. Dublin,The Facts of Life: From Birth to Death, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1951.^[6]
A 40 Year Campaign Against Tuberculosis, 1952^[5]
Louis I. Dublin, Suicide: a Sociological and Statistical Study,1963. Ronald Press Company, New York.

Other works

Louis I. Dublin, After Eighty Years (autobiography) University of Florida Press, Gainsville 1966, pp. 243

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

Collected papers at the Archives, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland

References

Inline

^ 2 NIH http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1226577&pageindex=1
^ 3 NIH http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1226577&pageindex=1
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c 1 Who's Who
^ ^a ^b 2 LOC
^ 2

General

"Louis I. Dublin 1882-1969". Statistical bulletin (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company) (UNITED STATES) 50: 2. Mar. 1969. ISSN 0026-1513. PMID 4897172.
Lilienfeld, David E (Jun. 2009). "Louis I. Dublin and the development of the observational study: the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company natural history (cohort) studies of typhoid fever and scarlet fever". Ann Epidemiol (United States) 19 (6): 410–5. doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2009.01.014. PMID 19460671.
Falk, I S (Jul. 1969). "Louis I. Dublin. November 1, 1882-March 7, 1969". American journal of public health and the nation's health (UNITED STATES) 59 (7): 1083–5. ISSN 0002-9572. PMC 1226577. PMID 4893562. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1226577.
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.

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Name	Dublin, Louis Israel
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Date of birth	November 1, 1882
Place of birth	Kaunas), Lithuania
Date of death	March 7, 1969
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