Education
Sturmthal earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science in 1925 at Vienna University.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Adolf Sturmthal
Edit Profileuniversity professor opinion journalist
Career
He was chairman of the Association of Austrian Social Democratic Students and Academics. Following persecution for passport abuse, he emigrated to Belgium and Great Britain and then to the United States in 1938. Sturmthal was the first Philip Murray Professor of International Studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
From 1960 he was a professor of labour and industrial sociology at the University of Illinois.
Politics
He moved to Zurich in 1926 to assist Friedrich Adler, the secretary of the Labour and Socialist International, and was editor of International Information. In 1933 and 1934 he organised international aid for German and Austrian socialist refugees from the Austrofascist Dollfuss and Nazi regimes.
-
Born
-
Died
June 11, 1986 (aged 82) -
Nationality
United States A