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Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ

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Monarch
  
Frederick VII

Name
  
Carl Georg

Succeeded by
  
Carl Christian Hall

Preceded by
  
Peter Georg Bang

Role
  
Danish Politician

Carl Christoffer Georg Andrae
Born
  
14 October 1812 Hjertebjerg (
1812-10-14
)

Died
  
February 2, 1893, Copenhagen, Denmark

Carl Christopher Georg Andræ (14 October 1812, Hjertebjerg – 2 February 1893) was a Danish politician and mathematician. From 1842 until 1854, he was professor of mathematics and mechanics at the national military college. Andræ was elected to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 1853. In the next year he became Finance Minister in the Cabinet of Bang before also becoming Council President of Denmark 1856-1857 as leader of the Cabinet of Andræ. After being replaced as Council President by Carl Christian Hall in 1857 Andræ continued as Finance Minister in the Cabinet of Hall I until 1858. Being an individualist he after the defeat of the National Liberals never formally joined any political group but remained for the rest of his life a sceptical de facto conservative spectator of the Constitutional Struggle.

Single transferable vote

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Andræ developed a system of what is now called the single transferable vote (STV), which was used in Danish elections from 1855. This was two years before Thomas Hare published his first description of an STV system, without reference to Andræ. Though thoroughly convinced of the soundness of his method of electing representatives and ready to defend it in the cabinet or the parliament, he made no effort to bring it to the attention of scientific men and statesmen in other countries, much less to defend his claim as an inventor.

References

Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ Wikipedia