BLOCK, MAURICE (1816-1901), French statistician, was born in Berlin of Jewish parents Feb. 18 1816, and died in Paris Jan. 9 1901. He settled in Paris and became a naturalized French man. Entering the ministry of agriculture in Paris in 1844, he was one of the heads of the statistical department from 1852 to 1862.
Dictionnaire de l'administration francaise (1856) ; Statistique de la France (186o) ; Dictionnaire general de la politique (1862) ; L'Europe politique et sociale (1869) ; Traite theo rique et pratique de statistique (1878) ; Les Progres de l'economie politique depuis Adam Smith (189o) ; he also edited from 1856 L'An nuaire de l'economie politique et de la statistique, and wrote in German Die Bevolkerung des f ranzosischen Kaiserreichs (1861) ; Die Bevolke. rung Spaniens and Portugals (1861) ; and Die Machtstellung der europiiischen Staaten (1862) .
