Background
Veditz, Charles William Augustus was born on November 18, 1872 in at Philadelphia. Son of William and Augusta (Tramm) Veditz.
Veditz, Charles William Augustus was born on November 18, 1872 in at Philadelphia. Son of William and Augusta (Tramm) Veditz.
Bachelor of Philisophy, University of Pennsylvania, 1891. University of Halle, 1891-1893, Doctor of Philosophy, and Master of Arts University of Berlin, 1893-1894, University of Leipzig, 1894-1895, and University of Paris, 1896-1899, Bachelor of Laws.
Studies in economics, public law, sociology, history, Paris School of Anthropology, 1896-1898, School of Political Science, 1898-1899, Sorbonne, 1897-1898. École des Hautes Études, 1896-1897, Collège des Sciences Sociales, 1898-1900, Paris School of Law, 1897-1900.
Professor economics, Bates College, 1901-1905. Same chair, George Washington University, 1905-1909, and acting dean department of political sciences, 1908-1909 and 1912-1913, professor sociology, 1910-1913. Special agent United States bureau of Corps., 1909.
Agent bureau of Labor to investigate child labor in Europe, 1909.
Professor sociology, University of Michigan, 1908. Lecturer on economics, Yale, 1909-1910.
Chief examiner, United States Tariff Board, 1910-1912. Secretary Board of Arbitration which settled controversy between American Brotherhood Locomotive Engineers and 52 railroads in the United States (compiled and edited final report and award).
Tariff expert to Senate Committee on Finance, 1913.
Special agent unites states department Commerce, 1914. Commercial attache of the United States at Paris, Madrid and Berne, September 1914-1918. Served for United States on inter-allied economic conferences.
Satistician United States Housing Corporation, 1918.
Foreign trade expert, Bureau Applied Economics, Washington, District of Columbia, foreign trade adviser, with Metal Export Company, New York, 1919, in Norway, Sweden and Germany, 1920. Research economist, National Industrial Conference Board, New York, 1920.
Literature work, Washington, District of Columbia, and correspondent for Paris journal, “Le Soir,” since 1921. Associate International Institute Sociology.
Founded American Sociological Society, 1905, and secretary 5 years Author: The Philadelphia Gas Works, 1891.
The Recent Development of American Pottery, 1891. Thuenen’s Wertlehre (in Germany), 1896. Gide’s Political Economy (American edit), 1903.
The American Revolution, 1904.
Child Labor Laws in Europe (United States bureau of Labor), 1910. The Pittsburgh Smoke Investigation, 1912.
Also contributor articles on criminology, penology, et cetera, in International Cyclo. Prepared for bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, repts. on hardware trade in France, Spain, Portugal and Italy, 1914, 15.
Married Mildred Rita Onslow, 1901. Children: Jean Robert, Ivy Constance, William Paul Carroll.