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Erstmals wird hier Leben und Werk Aleksandr A. Chuprovs (1874-1926) beschrieben, des zu seiner Zeit bedeutendsten russischen und kontinentalen Statistikers. Das Buch basiert auf Archivquellen aus Moskau und enthält viele Passagen aus Chuprovs Korrespondenz mit Anderson, Bortkiewicz, Markov und Slutsky.Vor allem strebte Chuprov danach, die damals existierenden Strömungen statistischen Denkens (Englische Schule und Kontinentale Richtung) zu vereinen. Er war überaus erfolgreich und hat sich um das Hervortreten der mathematischen Statistik große Verdienste erworben.

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The book is essentially based on previously unknown archival sources and newspaper articles. Chuprov (1874-1926) is shown as a scientist with a broad field of interests (statistics with various applications including natural sciences, mathematical statistics, economics, burning social issues). His particular findings in mathematial statistics are described and also his efforts, partly successful, of uniting the Continental direction of statistics and the Biometric school into a single mathematical statistics. For the first time Chuprov`s life in emigration (mostly in Germany) is described in detail. He was recognized by the scientific community, elected Honourable Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and worshiped by Russian statisticans, but up to ca. 1958 Soviet officialdom labelled him an ideological enemy.

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