Background
Matz was born in Karlsruhe or Heidelberg, Germany and started his studies in Weimar Republic.
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Adolph Matz
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Education
He obtained his Bachelor in 1932 at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he also obtained his Master of Arts in 1933 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1937.
Career
In the early 1930s he came to the United States, and obtained the American citizenship in 1933. He started his academic career at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and became Professor of Accounting. Matz is noted for his 1946 prediction, that "completion of the first all-electronic general-purpose computing machine the future to the development of business machines heretofore undreamed of.. and may well also revolutionize methods and systems of dealing with everyday business transactions." These ideas were however dismissed as "too ephemeral," and his article initially rejected.
Matz died October 1, 1986 in Blue Bell, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
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Nationality
German